Lester Quotes

I learned from Richard Lester that as your career goes on, you learn more about how things can go wrong, but you never learn how things can go right. And it`s really disorienting.

(on director Richard Lester`s filming of Superman III (1983)) (He) was always looking for a gag - sometimes to the point where the gags involving Richard Pryor went over the top. I mean, I didn`t think that his going off the top of a building, on skis with a pink tablecloth around his shoulders, was particularly funny.

(on the famous fight scene in Superman II (1980)) The Salkinds (producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind) wanted to make a splash. Their vision was really big. I remember much of that as being fun. The strong wind blowing the cars around, from the three baddies with their super breath, that was all staged by (Richard Lester). And it had an element of humor to it, so it was fun for us to think of gags.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

He`s such a lovely fellow, that Lester Piggott.

Of course, with Lester, that was a good run with him, but the boys growing up, they used to bring their friends out to our house.

We`ve got some good kids here, ... Quarterback Lester Smith is a good thrower and we`vegot some kids who are good athletes.

Acquiring grants has been difficult lately, ... However, community groups are beginning to help us out. Lester Johnson, chief executive officer for Douglass National Bank is giving money to help run the clubs, such as the Greater Pentecostal Community Family Club in the area.