L.A. Banks Quotes

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

I assume these structures are made for siting?

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

It's really fun to watch yourself disappear in the movie every day.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

I'm sort of the bossiest sister.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

I got Twitter identity theft.

I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.