Ernest Borgnine Quotes
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
Quotes to Explore
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
