Frankie Avalon Quotes

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

Frankie Avalon

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Hard Work

• In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Possible
  • Prove
  • Recovery

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mortician

• When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Episode

• If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • You
  • Path
  • Keep Going

• It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Loved

• I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Try
  • I Can

• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Personality
  • Laughter

• Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time

• I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters

  

  Man Ray
  • American
  • Nature

• She glanced at him. 'What gods do you respect?''None.''And why not?''I help myself,' he said.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind

• A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Truth

• What was this dream we had, a dream of music,Music that rose from the opening earth like magicAnd shook its beauty upon us and died away?The long cold streets extend once more before us.The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Long
  • Dream

• If you take away Eau Rouge, you take away the reason why I do this.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Why

• The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Solitude

• No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

  

  Frankie Avalon