Quotes About Author

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

I feel like acting's a really good excuse because I just get to pretend to do everything and then back out if I don't like it.

When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.

I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

'Basra' is high on content, but a good dose of action sequences will make it edgy and pretty dark as well.

There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one.

Knowing that more people associate Chicago with street violence than generosity is difficult for me because, despite all my proclamations of being from the Bay Area, I have spent much of my life in Chicago. So I have a deep love and a pretty good understanding of the city.

With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book about meat called 'Meathooked.'

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

'Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.