Abel Ferrara Quotes
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
-
It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
-
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
-
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
-
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
-
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
-
Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
-
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
-
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
-
It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
-
It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
-
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
-
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
-
I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
-
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
-
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
-
I have an unfortunate personality.
-
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
-
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
-
I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.
-
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
-
I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.
-
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
