Elayne Boosler Quotes

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

Elayne Boosler

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• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Path
  • Short

• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Want
  • Clever

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Day

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Down
  • Parade
  • Runway

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Movie
  • Lost
  • Independent

• At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Service

• As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

  

  James Marsden
  • Different
  • Hand

• It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • She
  • Past

• I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Got

• I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Truth
  • Funny
  • Place