Christos Tsiolkas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  • I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.

  • A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  • I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

  • That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

  • Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

  • If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

  • I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  • When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

  • Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,