Bob Fosse Quotes

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Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.
- Bob Fosse

She not only kept her lovely figure,
she's added so much to it.
- Bob Fosse

Life is just a bowl of cherries, dont take it serious,
its mysterious.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love,
love a laugh, laugh and love.
- Bob Fosse

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks,
Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
- Richard Farnsworth

I don't like directors that just say,
Stand there and now do this.
- Joe Pantoliano

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary,
violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
- John Turturro

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that
the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium,
where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
- Beth Henley

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I guess I like a lot of directors.
Or at least I try to.
- Jacques Rivette

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them,
as if they'd do anything to get that image.
But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.
- Judy Davis

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.
- Will Friedle

No two directors make the same film the same way.
- Rob Cohen

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre,
because they wanted to get closer to the cinema,
despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
- Andrzej Wajda

He sort of gets comic moments.
Not a lot of directors do.
- Kevin McDonald

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
- Angie Stone

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors
like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen
my work in Full Metal Jacket.
- Vincent D'Onofrio

If you were in the film industry at that time,
you were always picked up by directors who were much older.
You were whisked about and shown things.
I did work very hard though.
- Diane Cilento

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing.
East coast Italian directors I guess.
- Anthony Michael Hall

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening
to directors talk about their movies.
- Jodie Foster

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience.
I got to work with a lot of directors.
- James Denton

I think every director has a different take,
some are good, some are bad.
The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films,
so who's to say who is right.
- Tim Roth

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
- Aaron Eckhart

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Betty Hill

I never storyboard.
I hate it.
I don't understand why so many directors want to make
comic strips of their films.
- Patrice Leconte

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times.
I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that
continues to get hired by the same directors.
- Joe Pantoliano

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
- Stanley Tucci

Maybe I'm too masculine.
Casting directors cast in their own,
or an idealized image.
Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
- Charles Bronson

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled,
and films were substantially better than they are today.
But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
- Mark Rydell

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were,
most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
- Gene Tierney

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
- Stanley Tucci

Most directors have little lists in their heads of
people they really want to work with.
- Alan Parker

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood
that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it.
No one will stop him.
- Larry Wachowski

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer -
conceptualizing the piece,
scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers,
chords, and instruments.
- Thomas Harrison

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make
you doubt your instincts.
- Omar Epps

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
- Skeet Ulrich

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight,
coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams,
and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
- Leroy Chiao

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement
about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
- Sean Penn

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer.
The studios no longer control, as they did in those days,
artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
- Lew Wasserman

Directors never give you anything.
- Claudia Christian

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
- Jeanne Moreau

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
- Ida Lupino

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.
- Dorothy Malone

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies,
and I have director approval.
That's kind of scary,' he says.
'No directors have been attached.
That's a lot of pressure on me.
- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

You have always had individual directors who begin
in the advertising or commercial world,
but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
- Ann Macbeth

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors
because they want their input,
not just their bodies.
- Kelly Lynch

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved
and would work with again.
I have no favorites.
- Judd Nelson

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory,
we provide our services to directors.
- Chow Yun-Fat

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.
- Christopher Atkins

When you see the films of certain young directors,
you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
- Jacques Rivette

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years
with directors that did 50 takes,
because I'd get like three takes or so and say,
Ok, that's it, we're done.
- Penelope Spheeris

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies,
but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
- Persis Khambatta

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images,
and others who aren't.
- Conrad Hall

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay,
is that he could be pretty rough on directors,
because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part.
And he did so.
- Tommy Bond

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects
or write their own screenplays.
- Thomas Harrison

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor
while at the same time they admired him.
- Leon Askin

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of
the constant musical chairs among news directors.
- Jessica Savitch

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well,
because they have people they answer to.
- Alexis Bledel

I've worked with a lot of great directors.
- Catherine Keener

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out
for little projects that people don't even know about,
that just surface later on.
- Laura Dern

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks.
The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
- Thornton Wilder

I have worked with some great directors.
- Dabney Coleman

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
- John Frankenheimer

I've run into some S.O.B.
directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
- Carroll O'Connor

Twelve years on sets watching directors,
I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
- Christopher Eccleston

Directors have to push me.
I have to be pushed up.
Not all the time, but often.
- Catherine Deneuve

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room,
which is just getting inside the studio,
getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
- Kenneth Anger

I don't want to know movie directors.
I don't want to be close to them.
I don't want to interfere with their work.
I don't want them to interfere with mine.
- Patricia Highsmith

I like directors who come on the set and create something
that's a little dangerous,
difficult or unusual.
- Elia Kazan

I should mention that I am a member of the board of
directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
- Merton Miller

Some directors expect you to do everything;
write,
be producer, psychiatrist.
Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during
the shooting so they can get the insurance.
- John Malkovich

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
- Richard King

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible:
they manage such a huge number of people of different characters,
think of the money involved.
- Catherine Deneuve

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