Said Quotes
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It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
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Her bikini - small; heels - tall She said she liked the ocean.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
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Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
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In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
