Palance Jack 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

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. — Victor Hugo

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

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated — Christopher Hitchens

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

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

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

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

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

And Adirondack is one of the world's biggest investment firms. So — Kim Stanley Robinson

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. — Iris Apfel