Mark Frost Quotes
I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.
Quotes to Explore
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I want to be my own person.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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Retire? I will never retire.
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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The moment I appeared the crowd started jeering and booing and shouting ‘faggot’ and spitting, I had hired a bodyguard and when the jeering started I turned to see where the bodyguard was, I could just see the back of his head as he was running out of the stadium.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt, that atheists are as plentiful as blackberries.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.
