I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.