La La Anthony Quotes

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I'm composing and writing music.

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I don't know what I believe.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

You're nothing if you're not special.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

When are you at your most defenseless?

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

When you are rich, people treat you with respect.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.