Walter Huston quotes

“Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?”
-- Walter Huston

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”
-- Walter Huston

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Simple Quotes #Years Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.”
-- Walter Huston

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Lines Quotes #Sound Quotes #Hell Quotes

“I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.”
-- Walter Huston

#Beer Quotes #Worry Quotes #People Quotes

“Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.”
-- Walter Huston

#Mean Quotes #Aging Quotes #Helpful Quotes

“If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.”
-- Walter Huston

Source : "Fictional character: Howard". "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", 1948.

#Boys Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”

“I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.”