Rooms Quotes - Page 60

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

They still put you in a room with these people who apparently have no difference whether you're making a family driven show or otherwise. But I do realize it's very sad to me. This is the first film [Oz The Great] that I've done that's not R rated. It's a really weird connection.

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

I don't know, in view of the situation, and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage - the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.

For mankind, universe is a battle arena against universe; there is no room for crying!

I have a whole guard room full of brawny veterans who'd enjoy a chance to drag two Eddisians out of here, particularly if you kicked a lot and they could kick you back.

We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's like, "Come on guys, we're just making a movie here." That tension runs into the performances and into the movie.

Mobile is important, and coming faster than most people in this room realize.

Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.

The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."