"Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'"

-- Charles Mingus

#Music Quotes #Falling In Love Quotes #Crazy Quotes

“I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.”
“I get to play with great friends and a great crew, every day, blowing stuff up and saying evil lines. You can't complain about that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.”
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.”
“The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.”
“It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. January 2013.
“Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.”
“It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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