Michael Tolkin Quotes
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
Quotes to Explore
-
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
-
After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
-
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
-
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
-
As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
-
The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
-
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
-
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
-
I'm a darned good listener.
-
The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
-
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
-
Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
-
Start slowly, then taper off.
-
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
-
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
-
If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.
-
You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.
-
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
