“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 129 of 169
“We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.”
“To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.”
“I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.”
“My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.”
“I wish I hadn't made so many images.”
“I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.”
“I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.”
“There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.”
“Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.”
“I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.”
“I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.”
“You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.”
“bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.”
“Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.”
“Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.”
“Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.”
“Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.”
“I made my fair share of mistakes.”
“For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.”