Cliff Martinez Quotes
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
Quotes to Explore
-
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
-
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
-
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
-
We can only learn to love by loving.
-
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
-
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
-
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
-
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
-
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
-
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
-
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
-
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
-
If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
-
Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
-
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
-
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
-
Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
-
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
-
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
-
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.
-
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
-
I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
-
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
-
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
