James Coburn famous quotes

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.
-- James Coburn

#Events #Kind #Seven

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.
-- James Coburn

#Children #Toxic #Humans

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
-- James Coburn

#Jobs #Desire #Acting

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.
-- James Coburn

#Voice #Two #Long

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular'.
-- James Coburn

#Girl #Giving #Smoking

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.
-- James Coburn

#Way #Problem #Killing

It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.
-- James Coburn

#Jesus #Book #Directors

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.