Cecil Demille Quotes & Sayings

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day. — Cecil B. DeMille

I make my pictures for people, not for critics. — Cecil B. DeMille

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. — Steven Spielberg

God gave us free agency, and then gave us the commandments to keep us free. — Cecil B. DeMille

Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it. — S. Kelley Harrell

Blaming women is always in fashion. — Erica Jong

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? — Cecil B. DeMille

How many more are there like you? (Maggie)
Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I win my awards at the box office. — Cecil B. DeMille

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. — Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. — Cecil B. DeMille

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai ... but he has never improved on God's law. — Cecil B. DeMille

Creation is a drug I can't do without. — Cecil B. DeMille

Our modern world defined God as a 'religious complex' and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world - no longer laughing - cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together. They are not laws - they are The Law. — Cecil B. DeMille

There can be no liberty without the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed. — Condoleezza Rice

If you don't do your dance, who will? — Gabrielle Roth

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. — Michelle Malkin

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it. — Dan Savage

Not only may you not enter the state without certification: you are, in the eyes of the state, not dead until you are certified dead; and you can be certified dead only by an officer who himself (herself) holds state certification. The state pursues the certification of death with extraordinary thoroughness - witness the dispatch of a host of forensic scientists and bureaucrats to scrutinize and photograph and prod and poke the mountain of human corpses left behind by the great tsunami of December 2004 in order to establish their individual identities. No expense is spared to ensure that the census of subjects shall be complete and accurate.
Whether the citizen lives or dies is not a concern of the state. What matters to the state and its records is whether the citizen is alive or dead. — J.M. Coetzee

He who have less knowledge of what competition is about, will least have the knowledge as to how to win a competition. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling, — Cecil B. DeMille

I'm good with a script. — Mayim Bialik

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

The public is always right. — Cecil B. DeMille

The talent is in the choices. — Robert De Niro

Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name. — Kevin M. Kruse

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. — Cecil B. DeMille

I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees. — Felipe Esparza

I think Michigan and the people of Michigan know - really, they know that I'm going to protect them. They're great people. — Donald Trump

I don't know if this is true to you but for me
sometimes it gets so bad
that anything else
say like
looking at a bird on an overhead
power line
seems as great as a Beethoven symphony.
then you forget it and you're back
again. — Charles Bukowski

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times. — Richard Farnsworth

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. — Cecil B. DeMille

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with. — Cecil B. DeMille

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. — Cecil B. DeMille