Rotten Quotes

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.