William Beckett Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
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I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.
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We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.
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Plain free-weight squats work better for me than anything.
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I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.
