Dave Franco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
-
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
-
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
-
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
-
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
-
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
-
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
-
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
-
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
-
The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
-
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
-
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
-
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
-
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
-
You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
-
Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
-
I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
-
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
-
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
-
I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
-
My secret is just surrounding myself with people who are a lot funnier than me.
