Brian Yorkey Quotes

#1. Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

Laurence Fox

#2. Informers and stool pigeons are full of virtue, they should all be released and sent home - but how vile they are! Vile for all their virtues, vile even with all their sins absolved...Who was it who made that cruel joke about the proud sound made by the word "Man"?

Vasily Grossman

#3. And you find some way to survive
And you find out you don't have to be happy at all..
To be happy you're alive.

Brian Yorkey

#4. I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in a book called Own It - Take Life By The Bollocks. She once said my name so many times I disconnected from it entirely.

Claire Garber

#5. Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.

Susan Gable

#6. I bet you say that to all the formerly mummified girls you meet.

Anna Durand

#7. Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Andre Gide

#8. Superboy and the Invisible Girl
Son of Steel and Daughter of Air
He's a hero, a lover, a prince
She's not there ...

Brian Yorkey

#9. And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

Robert Grosseteste

#10. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey