F.X. Toole Quotes
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.
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