Abel Ferrara Quotes

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Early

• If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • You
  • Doing

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lucky

• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise

• I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Give
  • Answer

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • You
  • Fear

• A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Procrastination

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Theatre

• Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Life
  • Real
  • Cool

• The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Acting

• Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
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