Nobody Quotes

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I have got a few misters interested but nobody special these days.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.