Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatro) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
-
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
-
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
-
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
-
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
-
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
-
In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
-
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
-
If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
-
I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
-
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
-
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
-
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
-
I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.
-
Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?
-
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
-
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
-
When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
-
I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
-
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.
-
Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
