Frank Zappa Quotes
For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like films to be complete in their written form.
-
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
-
It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
-
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
-
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
-
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
-
I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
-
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
-
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
-
I have never had personal debt and never will.
-
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
-
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
-
In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
-
As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
-
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
-
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
-
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
-
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
-
The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.
-
People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
-
It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
-
As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together.
-
For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
