Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The most difficult thing to do is drama.
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Let's go for a drive OK? Well I'll go for a drive, you'll go for a ride. The person who drives the car they go for a drive, the other people they go for a ride. People don't know that, tell them when they're in your car. Say 'you assholes are goin' for a ride!'
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
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When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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My mom always says, "Pack your smile," but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food. He said, "For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they've seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that."
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Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
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By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.
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I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
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Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.
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Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.
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What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
