Captain Beefheart Quotes
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Quotes to Explore
-
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
-
I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
-
I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
-
I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
-
My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
-
Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
-
Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
-
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
-
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
-
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
-
My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
-
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
-
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
-
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
-
I naturally want to be provocative.
-
The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
-
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
-
I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
-
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
-
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
-
I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
-
Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
-
Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
-
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
