Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

  

  Dane Cook
  • Just
  • Hot
  • Notes

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• We all have the right to comment about each other.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Right
  • Other
  • Comment

• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Flexibility

• I'm actually not on Twitter.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Actually
  • Twitter

• I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • History
  • Will
  • Accept

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Better
  • Whiskey

• We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Education
  • Focus

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Important
  • Think
  • Symbolism

• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Time
  • History
  • Unique

• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Taken
  • Color
  • Rose

• Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much.

  

  Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • Real
  • Gangster

• The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Support
  • Bridge

• I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
  • King

• As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

  

  Allison Mack
  • Job
  • Interesting

• I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Interesting