4,258 Quotes About Hands

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.