Tyler, The Creator Quotes

I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

Tyler, The Creator

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• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Look
  • Said

• None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

  

  Said Musa
  • Human
  • Negative
  • Impact

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Challenge
  • Write

• I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Motivated
  • Pictures

• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Live
  • Money
  • Style

• I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• I am proud of my work for my country.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Work
  • Proud

• That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• What seems to me to be driving our whole civilization toward the abyss at present is a one-sided conception of liberty, a conception that is purely centrifugal, that would get rid of all outer control and then evade or deny openly the need of achieving inner control.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Control
  • Present
  • Driving

• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Job

• When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Persons
  • Creative
  • Passionate

• Sometimes in stand-up, you want that late-night set where you get that five minutes, then you want a half-hour special, and then the crown, if you will, is an HBO special.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Night

• As far as actual playing, Clapton - by far - is my biggest influence, and you can tuck Jeff Beck underneath that.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Influence
  • Far
  • Biggest

• I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

  

  Tyler, The Creator