Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
Quotes to Explore
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
-
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
-
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
-
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
-
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
-
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
-
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
-
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
-
I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
-
Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
-
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
-
I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
-
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
-
I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
-
Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines.
-
I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
-
I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
-
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.
-
In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
