Taylor Hackford Quotes

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The devil made me do it.

When there is question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all ... stood on the one side, and the Devil on the other, his cause being good, the Devil should have the right.

[Theodore Roosevelt] has sold himself to the devil and will live up to the bargain.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

The dilemma of dining with the devil, of cooperation, interaction, even of the most limited kind with an unelected regime, will always remain a cross on which committed democrats, reformers, radicals and such, in any authoritarian corner of the globe, and especially in Africa, find themselves impaled …. It boils down, ultimately, to one’s personal confidence in determining the length of the spoon with which one dines with the devil and one’s ability to keep a firm hold on it.

In the cloning debate to come, the political lines will not be drawn cleanly. And those who we presuppose would be the most fearful of the concept of human cloning, may themselves be split into those who would want clones to be born if a woman were pregnant with the clone and those who would see a clone as an Anti-Christ or other evil that must be destroyed.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

I love 'Scarface.'

With supernatural type of movies, if they're not done correctly, there are a lot of actors just running and screaming and looking scared for an hour and forty, and that can get a bit old.

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

I have a soul the devil wouldn't buy.

I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.