Ze Frank Quotes
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
-
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
-
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
-
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
-
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
-
Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
-
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
-
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
-
I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
-
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
-
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
-
The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
-
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
-
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
-
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
-
I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.
-
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
-
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
-
Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me.
-
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
-
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
