Lawrence Quotes

"Am I James Todd Smith now or LL Cool J? Pick a name baby. Pick a name and ride with it. I don`t wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I`m really serious about making these movies. You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you `how does it feel making the transition?` you know you`re not communicating correctly. So I just put the James Todd Smith thing there to let people know I was serious. It`s not like I made it Lawrence Cool J or something!."

On working with Lawrence Kasdan and Cameron Crowe, and Writer-Directors in general: I`d love to establish relationships with other writer-directors, too, but Chasing Amy (1997) is what got things going for me, and I`ll always stick by Kevin.

"I lost because I had appeared in a pro-Jewish picture, played a sympathetic Jewish boy, and shot four Arabs." -- Explaining why he believed he lost an important role in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (which filmed in Jordan), after completing work on Exodus (1960).

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

(about Charles S. Dutton`s criticism of "Martin" (1992)) Is Charles Dutton funny? Huh? At the end of the day, no. He`s not. Charles Dutton is not as funny as Martin Lawrence. Now, I got nothing against Charles Dutton... but let`s be truthful here. If "Roc" (1991) was funny, it would be on the air... But Charles Dutton is always preaching. How can you say someone has a negative image? You`re A Murderer!

Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: "Seven Samurai" (Shichinin no samurai (1954)); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); It`s a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).

Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we`ve been going back since. We`ve been back three times now.

My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It`s nice.

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He`s like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. `I like what you`re doing, and I`d like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?` I said, `You caught me at a bad time, because I`m probably moving home in a couple of months.` But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, `Give me a year to work with you.` I said, `l don`t have a year. I`ve got six months, at best.` He said, `All right. Six months.` Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.

We had the players and were able to use those to the max - Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson, Jonny Wilkinson - to market the sport,

We know what the canon is, and people can argue whether you should study F. Scott Fitzgerald or D.H. Lawrence ... I probably would put Shakespeare right in the middle - on that, George Pell and I agree.

Much of our quiet time is spent boating and generally loafing at our second home in the 1,000 Islands on the St. Lawrence River.

The debate was pretty lively with Lawrence Taylor.

Small earthquakes occur just north of Ottawa through what`s called the Western Quebec Seismic Zone and also along the St. Lawrence Valley so we do see small earthquakes occurring on a routine basis through that area.

There was a long weathered carpenter`s bench under the tall tree in front of the little old house that Lawrence had lived in there.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

We use it at the border at Johnstown and in the St. Lawrence area, ... And we use it for public demonstrations. There`s only one like this in the district.

It`s definitely a disappointment. He gave up more money, he gave up other opportunities because of his desire to play with the Nets, with Jason Kidd and for Lawrence Frank. New Jersey wasn`t comfortable, and neither were we, so now we`ll move forward.

Barbara Fleischman`s contributions in time and energy to this institution have been significant and selfless. She and her late husband Lawrence have been generous and tireless in their support from the very beginning of their association with the Getty.

The program has been successful in eliminating raccoon rabies from the St. Lawrence River Valley. So far this year the health department has confirmed two rabid bats and one rabid raccoon in Oswego County. An immunized raccoon population will decrease rabies exposure to people and domestic animals.