Joel Mccrea Quotes

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough. ~ Joel McCrea

Spending time around her house, I came across a cache of 16mm movies in her basement. It turned out that Barbara [Stanwyck] had a lot of her own movies, and I convinced her to spend some time watching them with me. I ran the projector. She had prints of Union Pacific, Ball of Fire, and Baby Face, among others. She didn't particularly like watching them, but she did enjoy reminiscing about their production: how she got the part, what the location was like, that sort of thing. She liked people with humor and always spoke highly of Gary Cooper, Joel McCrea, and Frank Capra. Oddly enough, she wasn't crazy about Preston Sturges; she seemed to feel that he expended all his charm and humor for his movies and that there wasn't anything left for his actors. In broad outline, all this sounds a little bit like the scene in Sunset Boulevard where Gloria Swanson sits with William Holden and watches a scene from Queen Kelly, rhapsodizing about her own face. But Barbara couldn't have cared less about how she looked; as I watched her films with her, it was clear that, for her, the movies were a job she loved, as well as a social occasion for a woman who was otherwise something of a loner. ~ Robert J. Wagner

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. ~ Joel McCrea

That era provided a profusion of wonderful actors and actresses to admire - and not always the ones remembered by posterity. Take Joel McCrea, for instance, a real cowboy and a good actor who could excel in westerns like Union Pacific or The Virginian, but who was also wonderful in comedies like The Palm Beach Story for Preston Sturges - and comedy is the hardest thing an actor can do. ~ Robert Wagner

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit. ~ Joel McCrea

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations. ~ Joel McCrea

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took. ~ Ray Bradbury

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note. ~ Joel McCrea

I never pretended to be a great actor. ~ Joel McCrea

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother. ~ Joel McCrea

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another. ~ Joel Parkinson

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well. ~ Joel Osteen

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it. ~ Joel Edgerton

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot ... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre. ~ Joel Edgerton

Don't hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone. ~ Joel Osteen

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. ~ Haley Joel Osment

Heaven gives revelation and faith feeds on that revelation to become the backbone of a strong character that climbs and overcomes the obstacles of this world to a desired vision in life. ~ JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of. ~ Joel Edgerton

Amazingly, we've become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe. ~ Joel Salatin

And the waitress is practicing politics

As the businessmen slowly get stoned

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness

But its better than drinkin' alone ~ Billy Joel

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes? ~ Billy Joel

I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration. ~ Joel Osteen

Do not support your friend in his sin today, for tomorrow he is getting converted and he will a shame you. ~ JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever. ~ Joel Siegel

This is why you are told "Let the weak man say, 'I am strong'." (Joel 3:10), for by his assumption, the cause-substance - 'I AM' - is rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms. This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social, financial, intellectual, or spiritual. 'I AM' is that reality to which, whatever happens, we must turn for an explanation of the phenomena of life. It is I AM's concept of itself that determines the form and scenery of its existence. Everything depends upon its attitude towards itself; that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot awaken in its world. ~ Neville Goddard

Look for ways to be a blessing.
Simple words of encouragement can brighten somebody's day. ~ Joel Osteen

Don't compare yourself. Celebrate yourself. ~ Joel Osteen

There is no real kind of specific genre of cost of movies. ~ Joel Silver

(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles. ~ Joel Osteen

There's a lot that is good in your life-don't take it for granted. Don't get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today ~ Joel Osteen

God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything ~ Joel Osteen

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. ~ Joel Osteen

You can get what you want or you can just get old. ~ Billy Joel

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right. ~ Billy Joel

LEARN TO LOVE YOUR failures, Marcus, because it is your failures that will make you who you are. It is your failures that will give meaning to your victories. ~ Joel Dicker

I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada. ~ Joel Silver

So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long. ~ Billy Joel

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. ~ Joel Barlow

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback! ~ Joel Osteen

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person. ~ Joel Edgerton

I wrote Dreams of My Mothers because it reveals deep insight into a topic - cross boarder, cross racial adoption - that rarely gets much attention from any quarter, because it represents such a niche subset of our society, but contains within it nearly all the most deeply felt – and held – human themes, passions, values, insecurities, and judgments. And loves. ~ Joel L.A. Peterson

Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you! ~ Joel Osteen

Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ~ Joel Carmichael

American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening. ~ Joel Fuhrman

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't. ~ Joel Madden

There's a reason that I love this town. ~ Joel Plaskett