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“We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.”
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“What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things”
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“Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.”
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“Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
Source : Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.182, Abrams
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“When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.”
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“A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.”
Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre”, p.3, Taylor & Francis
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“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”