Ti West Quotes

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world.

I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.

Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

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