Palance Quotes & Sayings

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. — Chuck Palahniuk

Most of the stuff I do is garbage. — Jack Palance

I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that. — Bruce Vilanch

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story. — Chester Brown

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. — Bob Gunton

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact. — Lincoln Child

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance. — Clint Walker

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three. — Jack Palance

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live. — Melissa Etheridge

I invented it, Bill made it famous. — David Bradley

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. — Jack Palance

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me. — David Foster Wallace

Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it? — Jack Palance

She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer — Sarah Rees Brennan

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own. — Jack Palance

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: "One."

Choose one thing. Do it to the best of your ability. Let it go. Pick something else. Repeat endlessly. — Lionel Fisher

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well. — Dan Fogelberg

Billy Crystal ... I crap bigger than him. — Jack Palance