February 15th, 2012 
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul Bert
Archive for the ‘P’ Category
Paul Bert
Peter Bogdanovich
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they’re getting this kind of money is because the studios don’t know what else to do. They don’t have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
Peter Bogdanovich
You see so many movies… the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there’s no sense of film grammar. There’s no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It’s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
Peter Bogdanovich
But at a certain point, and I don’t really know… people have asked me this. I don’t know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich
One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
Peter Bogdanovich
Paul Biya
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
Paul Biya
We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.
Paul Biya
I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.
Paul Biya
Peter Bichsel
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Peter Bichsel
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
Peter Bichsel
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
Peter Bichsel
I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
Peter Bichsel
The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
Peter Bichsel
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
Peter Bichsel
That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer.
Peter Bichsel
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
Peter Bichsel
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
Peter Bichsel
Paul Bettany
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don’t shoot films any more. There’s more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
Paul Bettany
It’s weird, because usually if you’re British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
Paul Bettany
The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn’t think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.
Paul Bettany
Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.
Paul Bettany
For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.
Paul Bettany
I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I’d open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
Paul Bettany
The trouble with talking about acting is that it’s like sex. It’s enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
Paul Bettany
Pete Best
I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another’s houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
Pete Best
Many things have been said about what happened, but I don’t know either. Maybe someday. One thing I’m sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.
Pete Best
We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
Pete Best
I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
Pete Best
Peter Berg
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he’s voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
Peter Berg
It’s always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Peter Berg
Michael Mann’s always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I’d always be saying ‘No, less, less’.
Peter Berg
When I look back at it, I’m mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Peter Berg
There’s a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he’s sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg
You might make a lot of money, but it’s very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better – and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg
Patty Berg
It’s not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
Patty Berg
People are what this election is all about.
Patty Berg
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg
Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
Patty Berg
It’s a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.
Patty Berg
There is nothing in this game of golf that can’t be improved upon if you practice.
Patty Berg
Philip E. Berger
The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
Philip E. Berger
My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.
Philip E. Berger
Peter Bergman
When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, ‘Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?’
Peter Bergman
I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.
Peter Bergman
When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.
Peter Bergman
She said, and I’m not kidding, ‘Is this a speaking role?’ I wasn’t quite sure how to answer that one.
Peter Bergman
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn’t had to do much of that before.
Peter Bergman
