John Cassavetes Quotes

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

John Cassavetes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyChildrenParentsEatingDown

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Joan Didion

WritingDownUnderstandWayMean

It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.

Jennifer Grey

DanceThinkYouGoBeyondGoing

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

Jeffrey Zeldman

TimeArchitectureLongInformation

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

Maya Rudolph

TimeBetterYesterdayNothingKids

As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness.

Meghan Daum

PoliticalYouWantMeanFeminism

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Andy Hobsbawm

GreatCreativityPowerfulRationally

It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

Tom Kite

FunEnjoyCreatingOutGetField

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

Lizzy Caplan

ActingFirstKidRoleGeeksFreaks

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Joshua Chamberlain

WarThinkBodyGoPlacesGoing

I am a deficit hawk.

Dick Cheney

I AmHawkAmDeficit

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.

Deepika Padukone

CharacterPersonalityDressMeKind

Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

David Zucker

GoodGreatMeThinkThoughtWorth

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