- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
- Nov 07, 2020
Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
- Optimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been an optimist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to have a fruitful romantic life when I'm never in one place for long.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor I can't think of what my daughter will think when she grows up. I will never do certain kinds of roles that I have in my mind. And for that I'm sure my daughters are going to be proud of me.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020