Andrew Sarris Quotes

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Andrew Sarris

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• A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • World
  • Without
  • Recognize

• I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Reveal

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Person
  • Company
  • Run

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• I try to keep a low profile.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Try
  • Low
  • Profile

• Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Job
  • Process

• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Power
  • More

• Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Nobody
  • Misfortune

• As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Most

• You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • You
  • Film
  • Yourself

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Life
  • Day
  • Fashion

• I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Child

• The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Man
  • Model

• When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • My Life

• The Pope was so sick he couldn't even come to the window, he was so sick all he could manage is a 'BLAAARGH (vomiting)'. But even that 'blargh' was anti-gay.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Gay
  • Sick

• If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

  

  Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • God
  • Saints
  • Adolescence

• The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

  

  Chris Albrecht
  • Focus
  • Helping
  • Strategy

• Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Course
  • European Culture

• So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Listening
  • Limits
  • Wondering

• Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

  

  Andrew Sarris