Jerry Quotes

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

He many not be hurt as much as he really is.

The ballgame is over...in this inning.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

And the live show is still our main thing.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.

Think not of what you did yesterday, but what you can do for yourself today.

I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

I can't eat chicken and look at strippers at the same time.

See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.

I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

You can be passionate about anything.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

Anyone who would laugh at a recital is probably some sort of lunatic anyway. I mean, only a sick, twisted mind could be that rude and ignorant.

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

Boy, I miss the days they made toys that could kill a kid.

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

Can't you at least die with a little dignity?

Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.