H. L. Mencken Quotes
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
-
It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
-
Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
-
I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
-
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
-
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
-
I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
-
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
-
I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
-
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
-
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
-
You can't tag me as a regional actress.
-
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
-
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
-
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
-
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
-
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
-
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
-
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
-
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
-
I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
-
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
