La La Anthony Quotes

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

I would love to be a superhero.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

The stage is my first love.

I think you can only be outgoing when the person you're talking to is outgoing. I can be outgoing if I want to be, if you meet me halfway.

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

I'm happy to be an Avenger!

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!