Rivers Cuomo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
-
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
-
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
-
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
-
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
-
Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
-
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
-
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
-
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
-
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
-
The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
-
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
-
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
-
I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
-
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
-
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
-
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
-
It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.
-
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
-
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
-
I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
