John Cassavetes Quotes

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

John Cassavetes

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• I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Girl
  • Sweet
  • Young

• There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Car

• Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Relationship
  • Intelligent

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • You
  • Way
  • Just

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Communication
  • Answer

• Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Day

• I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Child
  • Find

• As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Achieve
  • Europe
  • Universal

• I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Work
  • Done
  • Sorry

• All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Morning

• The Rogue Cyborg is doing serious Rogue Cyborg stuff. He’s crouched before a data terminal as though it were an ancient altar, and from the look on his face what he’s praying for is desperate and bloody revenge.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Serious
  • Revenge

• So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Feminity

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• We have to prove that digital manufacturing is inclusive. Then, the true narrative will emerge: Welcome, robots. You'll help us. But humans are still our future.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • True
  • Help
  • Future

• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

  

  John Cassavetes