Ve Neill Quotes

Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

Nothing burps better than bacon.

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me

Whatever you say about Fergus McCann, if this [Celtic Park] is the legacy, then I am absolutely delighted with it.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

Urgency is insecurity.

You are the expert on you.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.

I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.