Frank Iero Quotes
These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
Quotes to Explore
-
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
-
I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
-
To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.
-
People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.
-
I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
-
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
-
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
-
I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
-
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
-
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
-
Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
-
I read a lot of detective novels.
-
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
-
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
-
The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
-
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
-
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
-
It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
-
What you look at hard seems to look at you.
-
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
-
War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
-
These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
