Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

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• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Lives

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Actor

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Believe
  • Careers
  • Climate

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Done
  • Career
  • Success

• There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Career
  • Rest

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say "hi" to everybody.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Career
  • Moments
  • Cool

• You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

  

  Nagwa Fouad
  • Time
  • Money
  • Career

• Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Career
  • Taken

• I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Rap

• Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

  

  Daisuke Matsuzaka
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hope

• When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Career
  • Beginning

• I'm always going to be cooking, doing restaurants, helping my kids in their careers, with their sports, with their school, but this opportunity is bigger picture. We can deploy quickly, because we don't have that red tape. We don't need to get requisition forms or this or that. We can just do it.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • School
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Want
  • Written
  • Picks

• I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Political
  • Argument
  • Slave

• I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Run
  • Written
  • White House

• Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Should
  • Written
  • Commandments

• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Quality

• I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Careers
  • Written
  • Scripts