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

• 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

• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • History
  • Garden
  • Impossible

• Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Life

• On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

  

  Sharon Bolton
  • Novel
  • Happen
  • Island

• I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Country

• In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer
  • World
  • Team

• Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Eye
  • Magic
  • Looks

• 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