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Rip Taylor Quotes

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1934

Topics

Someone Hollywood Protect Guard Star

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Win Important Will Prepare Vital

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

Live People Writing Night Saturday

Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.

Me Problem Risk Upside Many Certain

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Family Day Night Summer Never First

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

Morning Age Great Light Old Age

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

Love Time Think Better Play Alive

The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.

Miroslav Lajcak

Right Resources Engage Must Global

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Dog I Am Ethics Think Better Hot

One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.

Derek Cianfrance

Life Time Hero Me Want Movies

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

Angel Devil Two Things Capacity

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

War Moral Civil War Emotional Force

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

Pink Clothes Kind Blush Singer High

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