John Turturro Quotes

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

John Turturro

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• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
  • Pressure

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Childhood

• I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Help
  • Story
  • My Life

• Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Technology
  • Religion
  • Values

• Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Control
  • Hands
  • Development

• I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Logical

• James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Perspective

• One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Good
  • Career

• Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • World
  • Mountain
  • Grief

• I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Acting

• I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Funny
  • Crazy
  • Hole

• My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

  

  John Turturro
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