Owen King Quotes
I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
-
All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
-
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
-
Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
-
My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
-
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
-
If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
-
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
-
Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
-
It's just an amazing feeling to know that I'm representing for every plus-size woman out there.
-
I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.
-
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?
-
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
-
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
-
I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.
