Barry Eisler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
-
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
-
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
-
I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
-
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
-
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
-
If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
-
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
-
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
-
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
-
When you give of yourself, it's draining.
-
When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
-
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
-
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
-
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
-
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
