John Cassavetes Quotes

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

John Cassavetes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989

Topics

TalentHumilityGangsterYouWant

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

WifeSwimmingGoDrownGetTroubles

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

John Dickerson

BlindYouNobodyYesOutPresidency

Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.

Meg White

PeopleMeStreetNeverInterested

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

Jeff Dunham

ArtStandStrangeNeverOutDays

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

Jeff Goldblum

EasyYouSaySomethingAttracted

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simone Weil

DaySufferingThinkPovertyKnow

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

Rose Leslie

LifeFamilyLoveHomeLiveMyself

When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

Romy Madley Croft

MyselfNightThinkFestivalsLook

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.

Mike Huckabee

LifeThinkChristianSomeoneEnough

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

Louise Slaughter

ReadingPollutionOutsideNationWho

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ManWindKnowPlansAimRight

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Jason Reitman

GreatArtMistakesDecisionsMoments

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