Pastoral Resources

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.