Danny Huston quote: "I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories."

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us w...
DANNY HUSTON

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, ...
DANNY HUSTON

I think that John is also making that point to the American voter who feels that he can't make a dif...
DANNY HUSTON

I'd been in Kenya previously working on The Constant Gardener ,
DANNY HUSTON

If one got too concerned with motivation, his eyes would kind of roll. He and John have collaborated...
DANNY HUSTON

Nick was wonderful to have around because he's just such a straight talker,
DANNY HUSTON

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's goin...
DANNY HUSTON

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
DANNY HUSTON

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of mon...
DANNY HUSTON

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.
DANNY HUSTON

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.
DANNY HUSTON

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
DANNY HUSTON

I seem to play a lot of losers.
DANNY HUSTON

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don'...
DANNY HUSTON

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that ...
DANNY HUSTON

As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hat...
DANNY HUSTON

I've always considered myself a character actor.
JACK HUSTON

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
JACK HUSTON

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striki...
JACK HUSTON

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and...
JACK HUSTON

My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, b...
JACK HUSTON

I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've...
JACK HUSTON

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being...
JACK HUSTON

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
JACK HUSTON

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are ...
JACK HUSTON

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...
HUSTON SMITH

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneylan...
ANJELICA HUSTON

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that b...
HUSTON SMITH

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
HUSTON SMITH

A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evi...
HUSTON SMITH

Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress i...
JOHN HUSTON

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
JOHN HUSTON

Of course drugs were fun.
ANJELICA HUSTON

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
JOHN HUSTON

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
HUSTON SMITH

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with i...
ALLEGRA HUSTON

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's wh...
CHARLIE HUSTON

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell...
HUSTON SMITH

That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, t...
ANJELICA HUSTON

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
ANJELICA HUSTON

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin-but its becoming more and more rarified.
ANJELICA HUSTON

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
ANJELICA HUSTON

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I...
ANJELICA HUSTON

I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of t...
ANJELICA HUSTON

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then...
ANJELICA HUSTON

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit th...
ANJELICA HUSTON

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all th...
ANJELICA HUSTON

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
ANJELICA HUSTON

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures ...
HUSTON SMITH

I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never...
WALTER HUSTON

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - s...
ANJELICA HUSTON

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a d...
JOHN HUSTON

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate an...
HUSTON SMITH

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particul...
ANJELICA HUSTON

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; ...
HUSTON SMITH

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I w...
ALLEGRA HUSTON

There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant...
HUSTON SMITH

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y...
HUSTON SMITH

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to...
ANJELICA HUSTON

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are ...
HUSTON SMITH

They're going to do something that compliments the neighborhood. It's going to make everyone happy. ...
MONIQUE HUSTON

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on ...
HUSTON SMITH

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method b...
HUSTON SMITH

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had ...
HUSTON SMITH

I assumed that the collaboration between the writer and artist would be fairly intimate, a lot of ba...
CHARLIE HUSTON

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in m...
HUSTON SMITH

I've never been seasick. Carsick, but never seasick.
ANJELICA HUSTON

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
HUSTON SMITH

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it i...
HUSTON SMITH

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what y...
ANJELICA HUSTON

There's always that question of what do you do first thing in the morning-hair and makeup or do you ...
ANJELICA HUSTON

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
ANJELICA HUSTON

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I thi...
ANJELICA HUSTON

I think most actors like to be liked.
ANJELICA HUSTON

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time wit...
ANJELICA HUSTON

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located i...
HUSTON SMITH

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most p...
HUSTON SMITH

What to do when inspiration doesn't come: Be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things int...
JOHN HUSTON

I wasn't there long enough to hear them say what they were.
JOHN HUSTON

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reason...
HUSTON SMITH

We are appalled that this movie, marketed primarily to teens and young adults, blatantly makes light...
STEVE HUSTON

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses ar...
HUSTON SMITH

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...
HUSTON SMITH

I hit the ball out there far enough to compete, but you've got to putt, ... I've missed so many shor...
JOHN HUSTON

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
JOHN HUSTON

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controllin...
JOHN HUSTON

It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
JOHN HUSTON

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
JOHN HUSTON

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless busines...
HUSTON SMITH

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye t...
CHARLIE HUSTON

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in w...
ANJELICA HUSTON

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an a...
ANJELICA HUSTON

My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extrem...
ANJELICA HUSTON

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made m...
HUSTON SMITH

You go through a whole procedure before you can even pitch an idea. They would only talk to me very ...
CHARLIE HUSTON

The truth is, because of where the technology is now, the artists are really spread out.
CHARLIE HUSTON

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then...
HUSTON SMITH

Other than one putt, I made just about every putt that I should have made today,
JOHN HUSTON

If I would have just selected the few tournaments to play at the end of the year or whatever, I prob...
JOHN HUSTON

I could either just kind of halfway give up for the year, or start playing every week and try to get...
JOHN HUSTON

I'm not that worried about the whole top 125 thing, but it certainly would be nice to finish strong ...
JOHN HUSTON

And for whatever reason, I just don't putt like I used to. I think everything feeds off of that. You...
JOHN HUSTON

I like when scoring conditions are good and the weather's good,
JOHN HUSTON

Hopefully. It hasn't been a very good year.
JOHN HUSTON

It was really no big deal then, and still isn't to me. I think the whole problem with it is they mad...
JOHN HUSTON

The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals...
HUSTON SMITH

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
ANJELICA HUSTON

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
HUSTON SMITH

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
HUSTON SMITH

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've do...
HUSTON SMITH

About Hollywood.
I feel like it’s a big ocean, full of bottom feeders, midlevel fish, the occ...
ANJELICA HUSTON

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?
HUSTON SMITH

Hopefully this will jump start the year and get me going on the right track. This is going to get me...
HUSTON STREET

This has probably been the most fun baseball total experience as I have had in my life, ... I've nev...
HUSTON STREET

I heard a lot of good stories from guys who had played [in the AFL] and I considered it a pretty big...
HUSTON STREET

You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about wal...
HUSTON STREET

They turned that so quick, I didn't think they'd have a chance. Right there, that's the game.
HUSTON STREET

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.
HUSTON STREET

You've definitely got to be careful. That last pitch he could have hit 450 feet. Their whole lineup ...
HUSTON STREET

But just when you feel like you need a little help, he'll come in with a little adjustment that ends...
HUSTON STREET

He steps in when he needs to, and he knows when to back off,
HUSTON STREET

If you're surprised by getting the job done, that means you didn't expect it out of yourself.
HUSTON STREET

There is no connection between morality and disaster, Are we going to think that they deserved that?...
HUSTON SMITH

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
HUSTON SMITH

Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.
HUSTON SMITH

Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulate...
HUSTON SMITH

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big ba...
HUSTON SMITH

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
HUSTON SMITH

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because rel...
HUSTON SMITH

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of...
HUSTON SMITH

The most powerful moral influence is example.
HUSTON SMITH

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists...
HUSTON SMITH

I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking th...
HUSTON SMITH

The department's philosophy is that career-technical students should be prepared for both work and c...
PAT HUSTON

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN HUSTON FINLEY

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high ...
DANNY GLOVER

People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a goo...
DANNY DEVITO

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
DANNY BONADUCE

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source...
DANNY MEYER

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone e...
DANNY DEVITO

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sh...
DANNY MEYER

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
DANNY MEYER

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.
DANNY MEYER

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values...
DANNY MEYER

In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-y...
DANNY MEYER

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
DANNY ELFMAN

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shu...
DANNY DEVITO

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
DANNY MCGOORTY

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to ...
DANNY BAUTISTA

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - ...
DANNY DEVITO

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean...
DANNY BOYLE

make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “...
DANNY SILK

Half this game is 90% mental.
DANNY OZARK

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
DANNY DEVITO

One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
DANNY MCGOORTY

Mr. and Mrs. McCartney are vegans, and what they stand for is the complete elimination of the killin...
DANNY WILLIAMS

If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something...
DANNY PARADISE

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat...
DANNY GLOVER

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.
DANNY DEVITO

Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate t...
DANNY MEYER

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n...
DANNY STRONG

I love action films. I don't really like drama.
DANNY TREJO

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
DANNY KAYE

I am a wife-made man.
DANNY KAYE

There is a danger in democracy itself.
DANNY KAYE

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films...
DANNY KAYE

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and...
DANNY KAYE

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious...
DANNY KAYE

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
DANNY KAYE

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
DANNY KAYE

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
DANNY KAYE

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
DANNY KAYE

The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way th...
DANNY MEYER

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. ...
DANNY MEYER

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed...
DANNY MEYER

The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospi...
DANNY MEYER

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. L...
DANNY GLOVER

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
DANNY BOYLE

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or ...
DANNY MEYER

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, ...
DANNY DEVITO

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful tha...
DANNY BOYLE

Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
DANNY MEYER

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its mone...
DANNY GLOVER

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Chri...
DANNY MEYER

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doi...
DANNY DEVITO

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semes...
DANNY GLOVER

Smart Technology is making us stupid.
DANNY MEKIć

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried someth...
DANNY AIELLO

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
DANNY BOYLE

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot ...
DANNY MEYER

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
DANNY MCBRIDE

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.
DANNY BONADUCE

'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes i...
DANNY MEYER

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. Tha...
DANNY MASTERSON

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
DANNY BROWN

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphe...
DANNY MASTERSON

I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and li...
DANNY PINO

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