Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can’t unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for...

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don’t think horror for the sake of it can work unless you’re able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he’s gonna kill ya.

Wanting to be in a Western film won’t get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn’t matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor...

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.

Unless I’m really uneasy with what I’m writing, I lose interest very quickly.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

I can’t write a scene unless I’ve visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that’s why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them...

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ’til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t...

I’m not sure what theory is, unless it’s the pursuit of fundamental questions.

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Most of what we report from Congress they don’t care about unless it affects them directly.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that… the control over your dearest interests has passed into...

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I’m getting audited and I’m on the street and I desperately need some dough and...

You can’t be a proper comic unless you’ve been out on stage and felt the fear.

I tell it like it is, but I don’t voice my opinion unless it’s asked for.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Stores don’t order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don’t produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they...

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have...

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn’t get that job unless you were really worth it.

I’m not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it’s something I really need to know.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don’t. They just get what they see, and they take that...

Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

You know very well that unless you’re a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why...

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

Strategic planning is worthless – unless there is first a strategic vision.

Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.

Unless you’re doing Shakespeare or Chekhov… the written word is not sacrosanct.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don’t see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

There’s more of a family connection when you’re working on a TV show. That’s not to say that you don’t make great connections when you’re working on films, but it’s different unless you’re there working...

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

And as a filmmaker, I’m trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don’t believe that.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I’m working with.