Mark Spitz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
-
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
-
I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
-
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
-
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
-
I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
-
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
-
I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
-
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
-
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
-
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
-
In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
-
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
-
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
-
I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
-
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
-
'General Turquoise Blue?' asked Arthur. 'I didn't make Suzy a general, did I? I remember her talking about it, but I don't remember actually...' 'She probably just put on the uniform,' said Dr Scamandros. 'No one would question her.'
-
Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
-
Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
-
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
-
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
-
Elizabeth Moon's antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.
-
We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.
-
Everyone loves to be loved.
Mark Spitz
