Ed Wood Quotes

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

And, look, I'm sorry if I have blond hair and blue eyes and my boyfriend looks like a vampire. What do you want me to do about it?

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.