I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.
The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something. . . loud, now, and memorable.
I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.
[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award. " The other is "You want fries with that?".