Burt Young (Gerald Tommaso DeLouise) Quotes

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Burt Young

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Me
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Always
  • Boundaries

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Comfortable
  • Teller
  • Jeweller

• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • More
  • Consciousness
  • His

• I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Acting
  • Start

• Most of my instruments are handmade.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Most
  • Instruments
  • Handmade

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Think
  • Words
  • Nervous

• I love Africa.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Africa

• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Books

• Self-parody is the first portent of age.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Age
  • First

• There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Human
  • Race
  • Sisters

• Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Moon

• The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Giving

• Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than Sargent thinks. But he went on to agree that impressionists had noted how strong

  

  Claude Monet
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Question

• In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Life
  • Love
  • Man

• . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Prayer

• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Moral

• If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.

  

  Jon Tester
  • Decisions
  • Election
  • Senator

• I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

  

  Burt Young