My Dinner With Andre Quotes & Sayings

[Bob] Dylan said, "I don't have to B.S. anybody like those guys up on Broadway that're always writin' about 'I'm hot for you and you're hot for me--ooka dooka dicka dee.' There's other things in the world besides love and sex that're important too. People shouldn't turn their backs on 'em just because they ain't pretty to look at. How is the world ever gonna get any better if we're afraid to look at these things. — David Hajdu

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere. — Andre Dubus III

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. — Andre Dubus III

Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death. — Vicente Blasco Ibanez

If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.' — Michael Cudlitz

People should have fun with wine. A bottle should sit on your dinner table like all of the other condiments. — Andre Hueston Mack

It is an extraordinary fact but a true one that there are thousands of men in Britain who will never need Viagra as long as steam trains are in operation. — Bill Bryson

Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. — Saurabh Sharma

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. — Clint Eastwood

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.' — Eli Roth

The smallest morsel of truth will fight
the entire universe for its right to exist. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is "Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner." The entire plot of Before Sunrise is "Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna." But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema: — Brian Christian

And if you're just operating by habit, then you're not really living. - MY DINNER WITH ANDRE — Brian Christian

Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that! — Joe J. Christensen

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: Look out! They're about to smack you around again! — Molly Ivins

People don't want to see me having sex ... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger. — Julia Roberts

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done. — Ralph Waldo Emerson