Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes

I prefer writing originals.

Tony Gilroy

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• If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Business
  • Theatre
  • Lawyer

• I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Crazy

• I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

  

  Brian F. O'Byrne
  • Television
  • Irish
  • Grinning

• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Master

• If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dust
  • Venture
  • Displace

• For me, the character I play is most important.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Important
  • Character

• Computers make people stupid.

  

  David Gelernter
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Computers

• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • Growth
  • Atmosphere
  • Climate

• To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Competitors

• She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Working
  • News
  • Alphabet

• Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Generation
  • Revolutionary

• Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Black
  • Green
  • Horrible

• We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Freedom
  • Fight
  • Economic

• You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

  

  David Shore
  • Reason
  • Pleasure
  • Supposed

• Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

  

  Joyce Cary
  • House
  • Reality
  • Prison

• It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • History
  • Strong
  • Churches

• The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Critics
  • Composition
  • Originals

• I prefer writing originals.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Originals