Danny DeVito Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
-
When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
-
I get homesick.
-
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
-
Health food makes me sick.
-
You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
-
There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
-
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
-
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
-
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
-
I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
-
Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
-
Said one among them - 'Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again'.
-
Εὐάγγελος μέν, ὥσπερ ἡ παροιμία,ἕως γένοιτο μητρὸς εὐφρόνης πάρα.
-
I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
-
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
-
Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.
-
The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
-
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
-
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
-
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
-
I am self-centred. I just adore myself.
