Gerard Way Quotes
To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
Quotes to Explore
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.
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Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
