Brian De Palma Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
-
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
-
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
-
I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
-
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
-
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
-
Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
-
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
-
There's no regrets for me.
-
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
-
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
-
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
-
I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
-
I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
-
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
-
When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
-
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
-
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
-
It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.
-
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
-
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
-
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
