Ed Wood Quotes

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Celibacy is exhausting.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

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.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

I just got called Nigel.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.

I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

You ever been on a date so bad, the girl makes you drop her off at another dude's house?

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

A little bait catches a large fish.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."