Bobcat Goldthwait (Robert Francis Goldthwait) Quotes

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

Bobcat Goldthwait

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• In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Imagine
  • Emotions
  • Walk

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Israel

• I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Lucky

• The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Together
  • Career
  • Words

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Job
  • Health

• I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • America
  • Proud
  • Propaganda

• There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Person

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Experience
  • America
  • Interesting

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• It's always good to be working.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Good
  • Always
  • Working

• I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Day
  • Doing

• I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Start
  • Young
  • Latin

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Performance

• I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Music
  • Violence
  • Movies

• I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

  

  Bobcat Goldthwait
  • Movies
  • Following
  • Stopped