Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Quotes to Explore
-
Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
-
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
-
I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
-
I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
-
I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
-
I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
-
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
-
People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
-
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
-
Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
-
Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
-
I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
-
My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
-
I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
-
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
-
Envy aims very high.
-
Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
-
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
-
In L.A., I love the L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Also, the Beverly Wilshire, where they make great huevos rancheros. I also love Shutters on the Beach, where I walk around everywhere in a bathrobe.
-
The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.
-
I grew up listening to T-Pain and The-Dream, and they were doing that thing, rapping and singing at the same time. That's where I get it from.
-
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
-
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
-
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
