A.Z. Black Quotes

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I live here.

Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

I don't lie," I lied.

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

I serve society by rocking!

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

I'm used to being crazy and "rock-n-rolly", which is a little different than this world. For me, it was a chance to stretch a little bit.

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Every movie presents its challenges.

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.

Clarifying your identity helps you just talk to ladies.

I'm really excited about our DJ set. That's probably the most exciting of all. It's selfish but it's always your own thing that you're most concerned with.

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.

Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Always bring your “A” game and god will take care of the rest.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect, stupid. - Sirensong

If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.

To make things just that much more interesting, the changes can't be captured on camera, so anyone who doesn't see them firsthand thinks it's all some mass hallucination.

I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.

I figured we'd be too busy running for our lives than for him to make a move anyway. (Dana)

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.