Jim Beaver Quotes

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I was satisfied with my role in 'Luck,' and I am proud of the film.

Pretty much every record I've ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I'm proud of everything I've done.

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.

Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'

When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.

I've done it all.

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.