Ed Wood Quotes

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.