Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval. "

Related Quotes:

" It's unfathomable how you live without your mother. "

" What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert. "

" It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean. "

" I hate management. I hate management. I just do. "

" I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect. "

" I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity. "

" A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you. "

" We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too. "

" Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived. "

" I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being. "

" There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood. "

" People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top. "

" I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother. "

" If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies. "

" I don't want my child to have unhealthy values. "

" I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating. "

" I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story. "

" In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day. "

" Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves. "

" I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life. "

" Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike. "

" Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press. "

" Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you. "

" I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like. "

" I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry. "

" That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up. "

" Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary. "

" You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream. "

" In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine? "

" I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was. "