David Fincher Quotes

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

David Fincher

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• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Blessed

• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • New

• I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • People
  • Live
  • Past

• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Present

• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Great
  • Women
  • Character

• There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Long
  • Learn
  • Animals

• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Blue

• With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Police
  • Random
  • Privacy

• I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Couple

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Choose
  • Creation
  • Act

• You've gotta know what death is to know life!

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Death
  • Know

• One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

  

  Dave Gibbons

• I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• Sometimes I sneak out into the streets alone, like Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin.'

  

  Jacob Zachar
  • Alone
  • Princess

• It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Amazing

• You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

  

  David Fincher