Billy Collins Quotes
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
Quotes to Explore
-
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
-
I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
-
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
-
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
-
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
-
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
-
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
-
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
-
Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
-
I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
-
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
-
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
-
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
-
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
-
Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
-
I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
-
Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.
-
We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.
-
I had always wanted to see the world, and the PGA Tour was always going to be there.
-
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
-
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
