Edward Herrmann Quotes

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Edward Herrmann

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• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • House
  • Hate
  • Day

• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Connection
  • Mystery
  • Between

• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honest
  • Seek
  • Number

• Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Movie
  • Just
  • Two

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Day
  • End

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Hands
  • More
  • Roll

• I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Sports

• What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Expect

• My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Language

• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Love
  • Limit
  • Comes

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Batman

• There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

  

  Larry Poons
  • People
  • Painting
  • Color

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Power
  • Earth

• Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Men
  • War

• What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

  

  Bruce Babbitt

• I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Inspiration
  • Bored

• Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.

  

  Lizzie Brochere
  • Time
  • California

• Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Mistake

• I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

  

  Edward Herrmann