William Emerson Arnett (Will Arnett) Quotes
I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
William Emerson Arnett
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
Floyd Skloot
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse Hallstrom
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
Manika
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis
When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.
D. A. Fisher
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
Christopher Plummer
The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
William Loren Katz
I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
William Emerson Arnett