Quotes on Best

I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.

When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.