“i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 212 of 303
“How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”
“Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.”
“and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter”
“It seemed better to delay thinking.”
“the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever”
“they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is”
“I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.”
“Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.”
“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.”
“Milton Katselas said, "Who are you to look down your nose at Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton? Who do you think you are?" I was doing this kooky meditation at the time called inner-guide meditation, where you go into a cave and you have a guide, and you fly around. So I said to my inner guide, "Take me to the energy that's blocking me from accepting my casting" - because I understood it intellectually, but I didn't want to do it in my heart.”
“Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at 'em, and said, "Why won't they be a real actor?" - maybe they just knew their audience. It's too bad.”
“The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.”
“Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write too, so I know I'm trying desperately to communicate to whoever's going to direct my pieces, the way I see the humor. But it's very difficult.”
“I believe one should be a woman at home.”
“I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.”
“I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.”
“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.”
“And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.”
“All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.”