Otto Preminger Quotes
I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
-
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
-
If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
-
My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.
-
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
-
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
-
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
-
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
-
Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
-
It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
-
Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
-
I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
-
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
-
I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
-
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
-
I'm really obsessed with the past.
-
For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
-
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
-
The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
-
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
-
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
-
Foxy knows of him. (Flint's) mother still teaches here, so he's around. He goes to the games and works out in the gym. He's around all the kids.
-
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.
-
I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
