Vincent Gallo Quotes

#1. I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

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#2. I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America.

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#3. If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

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#4. My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

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#5. I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

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#6. I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

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#7. I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

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#8. I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

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#9. I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

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#10. I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

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#11. I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

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#12. I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

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#13. I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

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#14. I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

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#15. My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

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#16. I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

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#17. I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just ... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

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#18. I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

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