Off The Wall Quotes - Page 2

• I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Wall, Drama, People

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• There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Country, Stars

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  Tab Hunter

  Wall, Water

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Wall, Buddhism

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• I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

  Agnes Denes

  Wall, Want, Six

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.

  Roger von Oech

  Wall, People, Goal

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wall, Thinking, Civilization

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• Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

  Tony Fadell

  Wall, Hate, Alarms

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• It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

  Danny Elfman

  Wall, Moving, Ideas

  "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

  Julian Schnabel

  Wall, Next, Painting

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• Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

  Ashley Bickerton

  Art, Wall, Lasts

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• Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

  Morley Safer

  Wall, Europe, Rich

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• Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

  Toni Morrison

  Wall, Taken, Writing

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Summer, Wall

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• My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Moving, Funny Relationship, Florida

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• I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Wall, Successful, Giving

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• My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Wall, Taken, Challenges

  "Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe, Less Potter Than Ever". Interview with Logan Hill, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2013.

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• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  "A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

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• I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Wall, Fun

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  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wall, Hard Work, Fighting

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• There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~

  Darynda Jones

  Spiders, Irrational Fear, No Fear

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• We can't stop here, this is bat country!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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