Toback James Quotes & Sayings

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely. — James Toback

This is about sending a very strong message that Scotland does want to stay in the European Union and we're an open country, a good place to live, work, study and to do business and it's really important as we take forward what will be challenging work ahead of us, that we send those messages. — Nicola Sturgeon

I have to admit that trying to force me into admitting I love you is pretty low, and such an uncommon trait for someone who claims to be a submissive. — Johnny Stone

I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours. — Alicia Keys

I know a star when I see one. — James Toback

The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children. — Sunday Adelaja

Stand with me till the end," he said. "Love me. Believe in me. No man can ask more of his woman. — Flora Speer

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register. — James Toback

He had been in me. He had been in me and I had been in him, together in an infinite space, and there had been no spot where he ended and I began. — Anonymous

Most of our problems today are not that we don't know, but that we don't know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The past is history, the future's a mystery. — James Toback

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy. — Josh Hartnett

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America. — James Toback

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that
I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling
like I've been shafted. — James Toback

The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff. — James Toback

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun. — James Toback

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life ... you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen. — James Toback

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention. — James Toback

There's always time for babbling. — Eoin Colfer

Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement ... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.' — James Toback

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between. — James Toback

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done. — James Toback

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want. — Bobby Fischer

The last time he'd walked through a woman's dreams, she'd almost killed him. — Katie Reus

[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught. — James Toback