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
  • Nobody
  • Superman
  • 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

• I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Woman
  • Loss
  • Attractive

• Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

  

  John A. Logan
  • People
  • Time
  • Free

• I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

  

  Ian Cameron Esslemont
  • People
  • Important
  • Truth

• On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!

  

  Nadezhda Mandelstam
  • Books
  • Saved
  • Perished

• There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

  

  Edwin Paxton Hood
  • Success
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• 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