When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love -- I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.
Scratch a king and find a fool!
It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.
I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.
What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.
It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.
We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.
A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.
I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.
It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from. . . it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.
It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.
Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.