Errol Morris Quotes

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

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• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Girl
  • Learning
  • Guitar

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Sad

• It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Funny

• At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Day
  • End
  • Wealth

• If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Children
  • High
  • Heels

• You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Life
  • Appreciate
  • Bed

• In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Name
  • News
  • Jazz

• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Place

• I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Film
  • Television
  • Shows

• There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Memory
  • Thanks
  • Boredom

• So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Mind
  • English
  • Thoughts

• Anything I ever wanted, I had to work really hard for. I learned the value of saving my money, trying to make something happen, and being entrepreneurial, even as a really young girl.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Money

• The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Different

• Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Work
  • American
  • Party

• Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Work

• July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.

  

  Colin Chapman
  • Work
  • Relax
  • Get Away

• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Work
  • Detective