Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

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• I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Help
  • Girl

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Way
  • Dinner
  • Town

• Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Anything
  • Joke
  • Butt

• The roughest road often leads to the top.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Road
  • Top

• Love is something that never goes out of style.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Style
  • Love Is

• Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Done
  • Impossible

• You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

  

  Drew Houston
  • Work
  • Business
  • Period

• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Order
  • Psychology
  • Produce

• I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Strong
  • Belief
  • Express

• There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Darkness
  • Awakened
  • Slumbering

• When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Escape
  • Visual
  • Verbal

• Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Small
  • Audience
  • Ballet

• Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Public Life
  • Theaters
  • Manifestations

• This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Soul
  • Sometimes
  • Air

• The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?

  

  Sarah Louise Delany
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

  

  Tony Gilroy
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