Michael Bay Quotes

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

Michael Bay

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• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • Done
  • Reflection

• Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Great
  • Book
  • Help

• We're going to live on the edge. My spikes will have chalk on them.... We're pretty aggressive within the law. As a professional, I'm troubled if I'm not using the full authority allowed by law.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Law

• When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • She
  • Giving
  • Reading

• We know how popular it is in the States, and I think the bill looks very interesting. California is probably our biggest market in the States, so we're looking forward to that.

  

  Andrew Fletcher
  • Interesting
  • Popular
  • California

• I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.

  

  Yahtzee Croshaw
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Trade

• If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Time
  • Food
  • Sick

• We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

  

  Aristotle
  • Believe
  • Land
  • Citizens

• that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Spirit
  • Memories
  • Loneliness

• Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shadow
  • Kissing
  • Bliss

• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  

  William Blake
  • Child
  • Songs
  • Pipe

• I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Need

• Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Worry
  • Artists
  • Museum

• My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Worry
  • Teenage
  • Screws

• I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Years

• I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

  

  Michael Bay
  • Dear
  • Teenage