Frank Oz Quotes

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

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• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Video Games

• My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Name
  • Lightning
  • Bolt

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Love
  • Cartoons

• So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Cool
  • Nothing
  • More

• You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Song
  • Trouble
  • Resist

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • City
  • Opinion
  • Bit

• 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Real
  • Dope

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• To-day, artists and those who love artists seem like fossils. Imagine a megatherium or a diplodocus stalking the streets of Paris! There you have the impression that we must make upon our contemporaries. Ours is an epoch of engineers and of manufacturers, not one of artists.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Paris

• I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I've been working for the last six months, and when it was announced that Barack Obama was indeed president-elect, I wept.

  

  David Harewood
  • Night
  • Beginning

• I'm not a partisan.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Up
  • Growing

• There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • School
  • Kindness
  • Tolerance

• The Lamb's Club is going to be a luxury bar and grill; we're not doing an overly fancy restaurant. We wanted to make a space that people will come to every day, almost like a very high-end bistro.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • People
  • High
  • Space

• To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

  

  Plato
  • Friend
  • Life is
  • Disgraces

• The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Character
  • English
  • Kitchen

• I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Mind

• Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Song
  • Fashion

• I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

  

  Frank Oz