#me

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#audience #come #far #feet #how

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#here #i #mine #you #your

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#bad #better #conditions #difference #great

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#experience #facts #formed #imagination #imaginings

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. ↗

— Tim Roth

#anything #first #had #i #i think

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary. ↗

— Tim Roth

#been #certainly #coming #extraordinary

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. ↗

— Tim Roth

#always #am #because #challenge #comedy

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. ↗

— Tim Roth

#after #again #analyze #because #british

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become. ↗

— May Sarton

#become #dangerous #more #words

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. ↗

— Tim Roth

#attached #by the time #close #come #credits