Tom Sizemore Quotes

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

Never miss a chance to shut up

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

Don't take it so seriously.

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.