James Woods Quotes

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

James Woods

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 18, 1947

Topics

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Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

Jimmy Fallon

PeopleListeningSayingBelieveYou

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

DayYouEvery DayBadPageWrite

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

John Barry

WorkBossMy OwnNeverAlwaysOwn

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Star Jones

WeddingDramaSaidWantAlwaysBig

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

Stefan Sagmeister

PeopleMeaningWriteSeeTellWho

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

Sonny Mehta

EverythingInherited

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

ChangeTimeGenerationSameComplain

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Mary-Kate Olsen

PeopleDoingSituationKnowKindUp

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.

Mary Daly

LivingTheoryDifferentDimensions

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

PoliticsGovernmentDesertSandYou

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Judy Collins

I AmFunMeWritingSorryStop

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

Dick Cavett

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