I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.