Stanley Kubrick Quote

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

• Love

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

• Beginning

Small projects need much more help than great.

Dante Alighieri

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Chuang Tzu

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

• Action

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

• Kindness

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo

• Man

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

Armand Assante

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Pindar

• Reality

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Lao-Tzu

• Origin

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Livy

• Hope

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Sandra Bullock

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

• Kindness
• Success
• Imagination

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

Morgan Freeman