Ti West Quotes

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.