Al Barr Quotes

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

It's the Night of the Living Dead. It's scary out here.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.

Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.

I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.

The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

We generally get the evil we expect.

People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.