William John Locke Quotes
Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Work is what saves you.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
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Most of my influences are from the past.
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Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
