John Grant Quotes
The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.
Quotes to Explore
-
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
-
There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
-
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
-
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
-
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
-
An actor has to embody a role.
-
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
-
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
-
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
-
I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
-
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
-
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
-
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
-
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
-
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
-
When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
-
I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
-
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
-
Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.
-
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
-
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
-
The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.
