Hannah Quotes

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

When you get older, you have a much better sense of when it's time to really recognize that you're fortunate and that you should appreciate your circumstances.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now.

Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.

I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.

I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.