Preferring Quotes

After his suggestions of Warren Beatty, Alain Delon and Burt Reynolds to play the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) were rejected by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount production chief Robert Evans suggested Redford. When Coppola demurred, preferring his first choice of Tony Awar-winning Broadway actor Al Pacino, Evans explained that Redford could fit the role as he could be perceived as "northern Italian." Evans lost the struggle, Pacino was cast and a star was born.

Types really don`t matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven`t anything to do with glamour.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused '“ preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

(on Bing Crosby) I`ve never met anyone in the profession who was so unconcerned about his work. I don`t mean he was unprofessional. Quite the contrary. It`s just that once he finished a movie or a performance, that was that. He never watched his old movies on TV, always preferring to look at a baseball match instead.

We have failed to present lower taxes in a broader economic context, preferring to make an ideological argument about the size of the state, instead of an economic argument about Britain`s ability to compete in the world.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.