Jim Jarmusch Quotes

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

Jim Jarmusch

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• I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

  

  LaToya London
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Just

• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Brilliant

• For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Running
  • Day
  • Hand

• Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Contact

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• I've always been very fond of animals.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Always
  • Animals
  • Very

• I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Important
  • Right
  • Security

• I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Rejection

• And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • World
  • Long
  • Remember

• I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Addiction
  • Immune

• I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Me
  • Songs

• The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Spiritual

• Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

  

  Jon Ronson

• Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Want
  • Player

• Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills.

  

  Chadwick Boseman

• Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

  

  Burgess Meredith
  • Fool
  • Tone
  • Fruitcake

• TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Liberty
  • States
  • Obedience

• I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

  

  Jim Jarmusch