Jennifer Stone Quotes - Page 2

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

High school was great when it ended.

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.