Paul Theroux Quotes
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
-
There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
-
There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
-
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
-
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
-
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
-
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
-
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
-
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
-
If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
-
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
-
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
-
I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
-
It's weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you've made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.
-
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.
