A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.
I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.
I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.
The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
