Michael Wincott Quotes

I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.

Michael Wincott

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• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Story
  • Problems

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Want
  • Story

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Story
  • Voice
  • Find

• I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • High
  • Support
  • End

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Moment
  • Romantic
  • Poetic

• Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Cooking
  • Depth

• 'Sanam Re' is an amalgamation of an emotional love story and a visual treat.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Emotional
  • Story

• I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Best
  • Story
  • Afraid

• As quoted in 'Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback' by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Sweet
  • Comeback

• But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody!How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery,To love, and to be loved!Let’s just hope that is enough.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Hope
  • Sweet
  • Humility

• I think the essence of romantic love for women is being the special one, and that's an absolutely terrible trap. If the lover treats certain other people badly, you will be treated that badly, too.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • People
  • Women
  • Romantic

• Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Romantic

• Caution is the lower story of prudence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Story
  • Prudence
  • Caution

• When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Space

• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Fire
  • Lit

• Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Serious

• I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.

  

  Michael Wincott
  • Story
  • Sweet
  • Persons