John Landis Quotes

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Use

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Share

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• I am only about winning and getting better.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Winning
  • Better

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Success
  • Place

• How I was raised is what I am today.

  

  Joan Chen
  • Today

• I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • People
  • Different
  • Career

• I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People
  • Real
  • Career

• Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Society

• I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body.

  

  Ana Mendieta
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Body

• In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

  

  John Landis
  • Career