Rotten Quotes

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

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

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

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

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.