Thom Yorke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
-
Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
-
I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
-
I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
-
People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
-
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
-
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
-
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
-
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
-
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
-
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
-
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
-
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
-
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
-
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
-
The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
-
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
-
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
-
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
-
The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.
-
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
-
Q: Does commercial success matter to you?
