Danny DeVito Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
-
I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
-
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
-
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
-
Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
-
Making music is fantastic.
-
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
-
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
-
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
-
A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
-
A man's kiss is his signature.
-
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
-
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
-
Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
-
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
-
Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
-
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
-
How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two lighters a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.
-
Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.
-
I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
-
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
-
I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.
