Joe Pantoliano Quotes

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

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• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Living

• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Long
  • War
  • Nuclear Weapons

• My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Person

• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Down
  • Weaknesses
  • Demons

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Understand

• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
  • Happen
  • Winner

• I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Fake

• Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Words

• I'm a normal guy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Guy
  • Normal

• A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Me
  • Sick
  • Saying

• We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Exercise

• I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

  

  Gayle King
  • Up
  • Wish

• I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

  

  Emily Berrington

• I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.

  

  Nadine Coyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Time
  • Work

• They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

  

  Joe Pantoliano