Joe Dante Quotes

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

Joe Dante

• People

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • You

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Understanding

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Better

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Money
  • Family

• I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Men
  • Rich

• Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Bad
  • Rock

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

  

  Joe Dante
  • People