Pete Gallego Quotes
I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
-
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
-
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
-
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
-
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
-
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
-
I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
-
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
-
Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
-
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
-
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
-
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
-
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
-
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
-
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
-
Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
-
I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
-
I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
-
But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.
-
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
-
I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.
-
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
-
I was uncomfortable playing a constant bitch at first. I'm getting into it now but I'm not as nasty or as cocky as Carla. She's horrible to anyone she perceives to be a rival. I couldn't be like that.
-
I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.
