John Quotes

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

Nobody heard anything ahead of time.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

My sister's asthmatic. In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call. The guy said, "Did I call you or did you call me?"

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

I like the feel of your name on my lips.

Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.