Joe Greene Quotes
I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.
Quotes to Explore
-
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
-
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
-
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
-
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
-
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
-
I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
-
We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
-
Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
-
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-
Let's create a legal system that can work.
-
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
-
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
-
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
-
I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
-
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
-
The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
-
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
-
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.
-
Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.
-
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
-
I just write what I want to write.
-
I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.
