Joe Orton Quotes
Fay: You've been a widower for three days. Have you considered remarrying yet?McLeavy: No.Fay: Why not?McLeavy: I've been so busy with the funeral.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
-
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
-
It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
-
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
-
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
-
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
-
I'm a little angry in life.
-
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
-
I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
-
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
-
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
-
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
-
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
-
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
-
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
-
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
-
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
-
Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
-
I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.
-
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
-
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.
-
If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
-
I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?
-
Fay: You've been a widower for three days. Have you considered remarrying yet?McLeavy: No.Fay: Why not?McLeavy: I've been so busy with the funeral.
