Rip Torn Quotes

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.

Rip Torn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1931

Topics

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We are going to combat corruption, and we are going to underscore the fact that we want the private investors to be a major part of our future economy.

Joao Lourenco

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I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about, and if other people are writing about it, that doesn't really come to bear on what you want to do.

Jesse Andrews

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I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

John Fogerty

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I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

Anna Kendrick

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I really love New York.

Angelique Kerber

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My investors expect me to maximize profits.

Martin Shkreli

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I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

Douglas Coupland

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My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Wenham

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I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,' and the opening sequence had me in my boxer shorts; and then there was a scene in 'Trinity' with me walking around in boxer shorts. It was only one scene in each series.

Christian Cooke

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I've never turned down a fight in the UFC. Even when I was champ, I never turned down a fight.

Brock Lesnar

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I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

Susie Orbach

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Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

Thomas Lynch

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