Gerard Way Quotes
Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.
Quotes to Explore
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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I want to make smart choices.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.
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Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.
