Top 64 Caulfield Quotes
#1. Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
#2. I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#3. There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
J.D. Salinger
#4. I was basically the Holden Caulfield of adult dating.
Camille Perri
#5. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger
#6. It's the hipsters," David said. "It's retro. They need a place to convene and argue whether Holden Caulfield was deep or just a spoiled brat.
T.J. Klune
#7. the heart of the novel. Holden in New York where he has something close to a nervous breakdown. Caulfield narrates the story to us
Jonathan Coupland
#8. I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger
#9. Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.
Josh Hutcherson
#10. I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.
Stephen Metcalf
#11. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.
J.D. Salinger
#12. I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.
Mark David Chapman
#13. Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger
#14. I am Holden Caulfield, only less reckless, and more attractive.
Ben Brooks
#15. I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest - HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.
Lia Riley
#16. He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.
Sarah Mlynowski
#18. is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger
#19. I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.
Joan Caulfield
#20. I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.
Emma Caulfield
#21. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
J.D. Salinger
#22. I don't even like old cars. I mean, they don't even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human
J.D. Salinger
#25. I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.
Maxwell Caulfield
#26. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#27. I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
Emma Caulfield
#30. There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.
Emma Caulfield
#31. I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better.
Maxwell Caulfield
#32. I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.
Emma Caulfield
#33. I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.
Emma Caulfield
#34. I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.
Emma Caulfield
#35. Bandwagon and all that it is is such a huge passion of mine. We're already bouncing around ideas for season three, what we would call our golden ticket, in terms of a celebrity we would pair up with. We have a few in mind, and a few topics.
Emma Caulfield
#36. I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.
Emma Caulfield
#37. What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
J.D. Salinger
#39. You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.
Maxwell Caulfield
#40. Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
Maxwell Caulfield
#41. I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.
Joan Caulfield
#42. He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.
J.D. Salinger
#43. Original sin was always never knowing when to stop, sweetheart.
Sarah Caulfield
#44. Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
Joan Caulfield
#45. I think talking about one's love life is always ... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.
Emma Caulfield
#47. We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.
Emma Caulfield
#48. And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
J.D. Salinger
#49. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.
Emma Caulfield
#50. Coffee is a pretty miraculous beverage. It has many well-documented health benefits, including reducing the risk of various diseases. There are few, if any, reasons to avoid coffee and there may be numerous reasons to drink it
Timothy Caulfield
#51. The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.
Emma Caulfield
#52. I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.
Joan Caulfield
#53. I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
Emma Caulfield
#54. Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
J.D. Salinger
#55. I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.
Maxwell Caulfield
#56. I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.
Emma Caulfield
#57. We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.
Emma Caulfield
#58. For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
Emma Caulfield
#59. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
J.D. Salinger
#60. Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
Maxwell Caulfield
#61. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. Salinger
#62. I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.
Emma Caulfield
#63. That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't
J.D. Salinger
#64. I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.
Emma Caulfield
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