George A. Romero Quotes

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

I really have the American dream licked.

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

This is a country of strong beliefs. Just because some two people say something, people don't bow down.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

I've never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I'm a very busy person, so I've always done things and got on with my life.

No one's telling Tarantino what to do. You might like it or you might not like it, but the reality is he's getting his own vision out there.

I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.

I've always taken care of myself, and I'm a non-conformist, so I don't accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.