Scrap Quotes

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If I ever feel like I`m doing something I`ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

- Paul Newman

There are times when I could cheerfully walk out on the whole God damn setup. I don`t have to make pictures any more.When I first came out here to work from the New York stage,l I was carved up in all directions, a dumb actor tied to a slew of contractual clauses. Today I`m my own man - free, off the hook. This is a collective business, I know. But now it`s up to me to decide the stories we use and the kind of picture in which I`m prepared to get involved. I`m no longer the dumb and trusting ham being shuttled from picture to picture at someone else`s whim. I`m a company boss who has to make big decisions right or wrong, responsible only to myself in the long run. For years, we actors have been fighting for our so-called artistic freedom. We wanted to get rid of the moguls and their accountants. We damned the studio Shylocks for their materialism and lack of taste. Now, most of us are on our own. So what happens? This morning I had to call my office and scrap a production on which people had been working for months ... I decided it would be best to chuck it in rather than risk making a bad picture. All night I`ve been pacing up and down the house trying to make the right decision. I tell you there are times when I wish Hollywood actors had retained the status of bums and gypsies and left the planning to others. Right now, I`m tempted to say, `The hell with all of it.` The picture has changed, my friend. The old omnipotent caliphs are dying fast. Television plus the weight of years has weakened the survivors. It will need energy and a fresh executive approach to redirect the creative drive, re-channel the talent. The monopolies of the studios have been broken. The anti-trust laws have severed their distribution outlets. The shackling of actors to loaded long-term contracts is virtually a thing of the past. In effect, I have complete control over what I do. A year of two back this was considered some kind of victory of art over tyranny. Now I`m not so sure. I`m a free soul, you remember. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be a writer. Freedom of mind and action is important to me. Right now I`d like to take off for Mexico and fish for a while and swim and read books without wondering whether they would make a good picture. Now I`ll have to follow another production through from the drawing board to the cutting room. And then go out on the road and sell it with personal appearances. It can be stimulating. A challenge, as they say at Chasens. But there are times when actors like myself find themselves wishing we could resurrect Thalberg and pass the ball to him or people like him. The town`s wide open for any operator with the ability to finance, package and sell motion pictures. (1965)

- Gregory Peck

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

- Pablo Picasso

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

- Robbie Fowler

You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, `This is not funny, like we haven`t figured something out, scrap it.`

- Trey Parker

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

- Dean Koontz

I don`t think anything has changed. We are still going to fight and scrap for everything.

- Richard Hill

I gave the orders to salvage it, ... I think that whistle belongs to the citizens of Canton. I didn`t want it going to a scrap yard for brass.

- Don Edwards

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it`s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

- Richard Morris

I was going through my scrap book and I couldn`t do nothing but to cry because I had all kinds of pictures of her in there.

- Stephanie Jones

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don`t have to scrap for a living.

- David Talbot

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

- Aimee Bross

There are so many emotional stories in our lives that the cameras missed outside of the competition, which viewers never got to see. This online `scrap book` gives us a chance to share the entire journey leading up to, and during the Games to really illustrate the ups and downs an athlete and their mom`s experience along the road to becoming a U.S. Olympian.

- Andy Sutton

I suppose it`s nice to show I`m not on the scrap heap just yet. I`ve said it all along I know I haven`t played my last Test match.

- Armein Kirkland

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider`s web.

- Pablo Picasso

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw