Dave Itzkoff Quotes
Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
Quotes to Explore
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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
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The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn't no punk.
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When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.
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I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
