Andy Kaufman Quotes
I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I love working with women.
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.
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A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
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My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
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I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
