Danny Elfman Quotes

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Job
  • Books
  • Library

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • For Him
  • Kill

• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Feminist

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Children
  • You
  • Television

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Home
  • Giving
  • Charity

• For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Long
  • Trying

• I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

  

  Master P
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Trying