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Joe Eszterhas Quotes

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: November 23, 1944

Topics

Country Trouble Still Six Came Had

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

Tired You Bad Acting Situation Why

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

American Landscape Blossom Values

You don't have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren't there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.

Colleagues Scenery Driving Horse You

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Feel Political Class Right Act Them

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

Common Kids Lot

In comedy, when you bomb, especially at The Comedy Store in front of a sold-out house? I think it would have been way worse if I bombed there than losing a UFC fight.

Fight Losing Think Comedy You House

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

Value People You Vote Working Been

The Internet is a container, not a substance.

Internet Substance Container

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

William Mulholland

I Am Human Judgment Error Am

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Work Style Man I Am Free Worry

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

Gratitude People Free United Only

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

Life Good Death Balance Celebrate

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