Saint Quotes

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"I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn`t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint."

- Lana Turner

For thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don`t. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don`t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

- Orson Welles

"I`ve always been a religious person. I think faith is terribly important--not that I want to be a professional Catholic or try to sell my religion to anyone else. But I was thinking the other day about Saint Peter, who went out fishing who, though he had fished all night and caught nothing, still let down his net again. That`s what all of us have to do, I think. We say we`re tired, but we have to go out, and try and try and try-- again and again! And that`s not religious faith. That`s just faith in-- possibilities! I`m proud of what I`ve done. But I`ve just scratched the surface. I want to be the kind of woman that can grow and go on growing."

- Irene Dunne

The clothes in "Sex and the City" (1998) were a blast! My favourite part was working with Patricia Field, the costume designer. It was just insane. My wardrobe was more outrageous than raunchy. Yes, the colours were bright and the necklines were super-low, but my behaviour was more daring than my wardrobe. I think some of the other characters` choices were more, "Soho trash queens", but Samantha was a professional woman who worked and lived uptown, so she was always well put together. For the first season, I had a connection at Yves Saint-Laurent, and I wore YSL suits with a brooch or a hat, or a bag that was kind of fun or zing, but never too raunchy.

- Kim Cattrall

(on working with Vanessa Redgrave in Yanks (1979)) It`s been a terrific experience working with somebody as good as she is. An incredible actress. I`m in there with a really high-powered dame, you know. You cut back and forth and Vanessa is incredible. Incredible! She`d survive with Marlon Brando and no woman ever has, except maybe Eva Marie Saint at the beginning.

- William Devane

(Describing his perect woman:) "The patience of a saint, spunk and a head flat enough to set a can of beer on."

- Robert Hays

I`ve gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.

- Ingrid Bergman

"The challenge in playing Bess (in Breaking the Waves) is that, in physical, psychological, intellectual, moral, ethical and political terms, she`s a disaster - part saint, part clown. But she has an infinite capacity to love and believe. I tried to make the logic of that transcend those judgements."

- Emily Watson

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn`t do it was because of The Saint.

- Val Kilmer

(Eva Marie Saint on Hitchcock) "He said, `I don`t want you going back to sink-to-sink movies. You do movies where you wash the dishes looking drab in an apron. The audience wants to see their leading ladies dressed up.` He saw me as others didn`t."

- Alfred Hitchcock

I don`t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it`s your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, `I`m Method, I`m gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I`ve done it, I`ve been there`, but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity. They`ll still give great performances, but they`re not playing with the other actors - it`s all about them. And spontaneity and vulnerability are gold on screen and on stage - they are the fucking magic. When Brando reaches down and picks up that glove and puts it on his hand, that is magic. You can`t plan that. (He is referring to a scene in On The Waterfront: Eva Saint Marie accidentally dropped a glove on set and, rather than wait for another take, Brando picked it up and put it on, without missing a line.)

- Mark Ruffalo

If there`s something to work with that`s good and if there`s a conflict of the characters, that makes it more juicy, something colorful. A good script and director, of course, are the most important things. Sometimes I feel like I`ve done really good work, but it doesn`t matter if the film doesn`t work. The kind of films where I think the film worked, like The Flamingo Kid or Drugstore Cowboy or even Rumble Fish or The Saint of Fort Washington -- they didn`t do that well at the box office.

- Matt Dillon

There is no salvation for those outside the Church...I believe it. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She`s a much better person than I am. Honestly. She`s like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it`s just not fair if she doesn`t make it, she`s better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it.

- Mel Gibson

I`ve played the lot: a homosexual, a sadistic gangster, kings, princes, a saint, the lot. All that`s left is a Carry On film. My last ambition.

- Richard Burton

God has become a generic term like `mind blowing.` It is embarrassing. I would have said that to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar. I used to tell them I want to stand in the same space as you. I`ve told Kamal Haasan, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I`m still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

- Shah Rukh Khan

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It`s incredibly romantic.

- Brooke Burke

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

- Fiona Apple

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

- Danny Glover

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That`s how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

- Edward James Olmos

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

- Nelson Mandela

We don`t really know who woman is. She remains in that precise place within man where darkness begins. Talking about women means talking about the darkest part of ourselves, the undeveloped part, the true mystery within. In the beginning, I believe man was complete and androgynous-both male and female, or neither, like angels. Then came the division, and Eve was taken from him. So the problem for man is to reunite himself with the other half of his being, to find the woman who is right for him-right be she is simply a projection, a mirror of himself. A man can`t become whole or free until he has set woman free-his woman. It`s his responsibility, not hers. He can`t be complete, truly alive until he makes her his sexual companion, and not a slave of libidinous acts or a saint with a halo.

- Federico Fellini

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

- Max von Sydow

I have no idea. I had never met Ian Fleming, but I remember when the search for Bond was going on. I really wasn`t aware of Bond until then. I was doing The Saint and The Daily Express was conducting a search for Bond. However, since I was involved with The Saint I would not have been available, although Cubby told me later that I had been on `the short list.` (when asked if Ian Fleming had originally considered him for the role of James Bond)

- Roger Moore

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul`s.

- Sun Myung Moon

Their memory`s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can`t remember Tell the things you can`t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

- Tom Waits

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol`n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

- William Shakespeare

(on working with Vanessa Redgrave in "Yanks") It`s been a terrific experience working with somebody as good as she is. An incredible actress. I`m in there with a really high-powered dame, you know. You cut back and forth and Vanessa is incredible. Incredible! She`d survive with Marlon Brando and no woman ever has, except maybe Eve Marie Saint at the beginning.

- William Devane

My mother adopted me when I was three. Without her, I don`t think I would be here today. My mother is a saint.

- Marie-Josée Croze

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

- Sarah Vowell

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

- Georges Bataille

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

- Kinky Friedman

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

- Victor Hugo

I think it`s more like a mutual respect now. Whenever I see John, whether it`s playing pickup ball at Saint Joe`s or La Salle, or working out in the summer, I always like to catch up and see how everything`s going. Once you get to the NBA, you lose that heated rivalry. We both made it.

- Matt Carroll

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

- Anita Brookner

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

- Benny Hinn

Much later, designers like Dior and Saint Laurent recreated styles form the `30s and `40s.

- Christian Lacroix

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

- Albert Schweitzer

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

- Omar Khayyam

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

- Aaron Woods

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day`s Saint Valentine`s. For that good bishop`s sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

- Adam Skumawitz

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

- Alan Loewenstein

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

- Alberto Adrianzen

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

- Alexander Shumsky

You don`t become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

- Allen Settle

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

- Alyson Mike

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

- Amber Gunnoe

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

- Ammar Dwaik

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

- Andrew Nielson

Brad Campbell is a wonderful person who wants to do right for the environment. If that was all, then we would make Brad a saint. But Brad is also very politically ambitious, very personally ambitious. And he made mistakes.

- Art Anderson

Society and Saint Mary`s have both moved forward, but we are still behind.

- Assem Jihad