Joe Orton Quotes

Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.

Joe Orton

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Connection
  • Mystery
  • Between

• After you get what you want you don't want it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Want
  • You
  • After

• People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Man

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• I love reading books that can break my heart.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Books

• Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Music
  • Words
  • Language

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Look
  • Cooking

• I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Read
  • Buy
  • Comics

• I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Director

• I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Country

• I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Men
  • Think
  • Fashion

• The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • World
  • Power
  • Unique

• Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

  

  Will Thomas (novelist)
  • Silly
  • Republican
  • Patriotism

• I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

  

  Jeff Denham
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Choice

• Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.

  

  Joe Orton