Kit Reed Quotes
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
Quotes to Explore
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
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I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
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I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
