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I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day. — Josh Logan

I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character. — Vin Diesel

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle — Arthur Golden

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. — Sidney Lumet

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. — Sidney Lumet

All good work requires self-revelation. — Sidney Lumet

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is — Sidney Lumet

Governments can do both great and stupid things. — Katherine Rundell

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors. — Sidney Lumet

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport. — Rocky Carroll

Life is mostly froth and bubbles, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. Well, — Emma Burstall

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire — Henri Nouwen

Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal. — Seneca.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory. — Harold Bloom

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good. — Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself — Sidney Lumet

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. — Sidney Lumet

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room. — Sidney Lumet

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider. — Dani Shapiro

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie). — Sidney Lumet

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. — Elvis Presley

He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves. — Lois Lowry

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it. — Sidney Lumet

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones

Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future. — Gail Lumet Buckley

Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. — George W. Bush

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. — Steven Spielberg

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident . — Sidney Lumet

When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons. — George Carlin

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live. — Sidney Lumet

Good style, to me, is unseen style. — Sidney Lumet