T.C. Boyle Quotes

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

I'm so proud of my son for being so funny!

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

In live stage, the actor lives.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.

It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid.

Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I would love to adopt a child too but my cat might get jealous. I don't want to see a cat and a baby fighting. It's something I might do later.

People who bullied me have matured now. Some are good friends.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

The one's who were mean to me are now nice to me.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.