Karl Malden Quotes

I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.

Karl Malden

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• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Leader
  • United States
  • Run

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Good
  • Question
  • Heaven

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Think
  • Reading

• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Fight

• It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • True
  • Know

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Write

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Man
  • End

• I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Pop Music

• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Taxes

• I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.

  

  Alan Zweibel

• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Home
  • Political
  • Politics

• I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Relationships