James Cromwell Quotes

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the House is pleased to direct me.

As an actor, you blindly put your trust in experts - and if they tell you something's safe, you don't fully vet it yourself. If you're young and inexperienced, that's just what you're taught to do.

The first day of 'Liberty,' I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. Everybody told me how tough he was and not to say anything, or he'd single you out and get on you the whole shoot. But as he walked in, I got up and saluted him.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.