St. Vincent Quotes

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

Education is the number one priority.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

I'm a real low profile guy. So a date night for me is kind of curled up at home and watching something... have a nice glass of wine, a nice meal and we're all set.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

Only those things the heart believes are true.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

The sight of stars makes me dream.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

You have to first experience what you want to express

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

One can never study nature too much and too hard

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

We take death to reach a star