Ed Wood Quotes

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

I can't be left unsupervised.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place ... a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.