Joe Eszterhas Quotes

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

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• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Fell

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Superman
  • Nobody
  • Anyone

• I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Dad
  • College
  • Successful

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Free
  • Dark
  • Couple

• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Now

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Power
  • Love Is

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Idea
  • Fast

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Direct

• I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Married
  • Personal
  • Shape

• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Time
  • Guilty
  • Principles

• In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Lost
  • Stop

• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Live
  • Age

• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Enjoy
  • Confess

• I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Important
  • Judging
  • Permit

• This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Mind
  • Product

• Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Scene
  • Short
  • Complicated

• When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

  

  Andrew Roberts
  • Democracy
  • Israel
  • Bravery

• I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

  

  Joe Eszterhas