William Ivey Long Quotes
My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.
Quotes to Explore
-
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
-
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
-
I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
-
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
-
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
-
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
-
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
-
I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
-
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
-
I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
-
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
-
If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
-
Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
-
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
-
I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
-
Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
-
Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.
-
Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.
-
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
-
Although there is a beast in all of us, we don't show it often. But it is very liberating to be that angry at times. Given a chance, I'm sure people would like to go on a rampage and break everything.
-
My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.
