Tennessee Quotes - Page 2

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.