George Jean Nathan Quotes
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
-
He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
-
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
-
When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
-
You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
-
I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
-
It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
-
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
-
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
-
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
-
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
-
With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
-
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
-
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
-
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
-
My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
-
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
-
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
-
The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.
-
I don't like tattoos because tattoos are forever.
-
'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
-
A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
-
I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.
-
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
