Residue Quotes

CCH Pounder taught me one thing. She said, "Characters are like putting on a coat. You put the coat on while you work, you take the coat off after it`s over." You need that freshness. I know people who stay in character, and it`s the worst thing in the world. You can`t go out. They`re still in their character and the character residue is too much. I like to go do it, flip it on like a light switch and then flip it off. Then, when we come back in the next morning I flip it back on. That`s what keeps things fresh for me

(On his attitude towards Natalie Wood on the set of West Side Story (1961) and at a later date): "I think there was a residue of animosity toward Natalie because of that test for Rebel (Without a Cause), and it contributed to our situation. But a few years later we caught sight of each other at a nightclub on Sunset Strip. Natalie waved, came over to my table, and we talked for a few moments. She was incredibly sweet, left me thinking what a lovely person she was, and I felt genuinely attracted to her."

CCH Pounder taught me one thing. She said, "Characters are like putting on a coat. You put the coat on while you work, you take the coat off after it`s over." You need that freshness. I know people who stay in character, and it`s the worst thing in the world. You can`t go out. They`re still in their character and the character residue is too much. I like to go do it, flip it on like a light switch and then flip it off. Then, when we come back in the next morning I flip it back on. That`s what keeps things fresh for me.

We`re not going to have numbers to write home about in the first quarter, although they will show improvement, ... The first quarter will continue to have some residue from the difficulties of the fourth quarter, but nothing of the magnitude. We`re starting to get our arms around it.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford`s Good Solider" or something I wasn`t equipped to understand."

Luck is the residue of design.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

There wasn`t a reddish-orange residue from throughout the airplane, ... It was in three rows. I had it analyzed.