Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.