Top 100 Dolan Quotes
#1. I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.
Mitt Romney
#2. Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.
Stephen Colbert
#3. In short," Dolan said, "if I try to fuck with Limbus, I'll end up on the street corner wearing a tinfoil hat.
Jonathan Maberry
#5. Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
Xavier Dolan
#6. The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
Timothy M. Dolan
#7. As someone once said, SINCERITY is the single most important human characteristic. So once you can fake THAT, you're made.
John Dolan
#8. I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
Xavier Dolan
#9. Desire is a chameleon.
He blends into the brickwork and the rocks of those lanes and pathways down which we walk. He lurks like a highwayman at the crossroads of our lives, waiting to rob us of our reason.
And he does so for sport.
John Dolan
#10. Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
Xavier Dolan
#11. I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
Xavier Dolan
#12. Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.
Michael Dolan
#13. I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
Xavier Dolan
#14. As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
Xavier Dolan
#15. It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
Xavier Dolan
#16. The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
Xavier Dolan
#17. I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
Xavier Dolan
#18. I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.
Xavier Dolan
#19. Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
Xavier Dolan
#20. Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.
Michael Dolan
#21. When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.
Xavier Dolan
#22. If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.
Michael Dolan
#23. To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.
Xavier Dolan
#24. I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.
Monica Dolan
#25. Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
Xavier Dolan
#26. I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.
Xavier Dolan
#27. I would be a fully-paid-up member of the 'I Hate Paperwork Club' if I could summon the enthusiasm to fill in the application form.
John Dolan
#28. A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
Monica Dolan
#29. I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
Xavier Dolan
#30. Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.
Michael Dolan
#31. Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.
Timothy M. Dolan
#33. The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.
John Dolan
#34. My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.
Xavier Dolan
#35. I am going to give from every corner of my soul.
Michael Dolan
#36. With fame, money and sex settled, he had to find something else to fight, and like any honorable man he chose to fight his own people. And that was how Byron the sentimental poet of graveyards and lost loves became the Satanic joker all England loved to hate.
John C. Dolan
#37. I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Xavier Dolan
#38. My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
Xavier Dolan
#39. Karma means 'action'. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.
John Dolan
#40. Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan
#41. I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
Xavier Dolan
#42. Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
Xavier Dolan
#43. In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
Xavier Dolan
#44. What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page.
Fierce Dolan
#45. Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.
Xavier Dolan
#46. My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.
John Dolan
#47. If the joy of the Lord is our strength, then happiness isn't material; it's a choice we make in those tough moments to see Him working in our circumstances rather than focusing on our problems.
Kim Dolan Leto
#48. Find peace in the morning rush and you will have a good day.
Michael Dolan
#49. I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.
Xavier Dolan
#50. Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the guests and enticed them to devour.
Fierce Dolan
#51. You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.
Michael Dolan
#52. I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.
Xavier Dolan
#53. Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality's vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.
John Dolan
#57. I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
Xavier Dolan
#58. I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
Xavier Dolan
#59. Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.
Michael Dolan
#60. A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.
Xavier Dolan
#61. Sometimes I come across as superficial. Of this I am aware. However, you may be confident that inside my head I am forever plumbing new shallows, finding novel ways to express the obvious, reheating old jokes.
John Dolan
#62. The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.
Michael Dolan
#63. singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's
Chris Dolan
#64. I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
Xavier Dolan
#65. What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.
Xavier Dolan
#66. I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
Xavier Dolan
#67. The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
Xavier Dolan
#68. 'Titanic' made me want to tell stories ... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams ... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
Xavier Dolan
#69. I wonder briefly whether a schizophrenic Buddhist would be At Two with the universe.
John Dolan
#70. Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.
Michael Dolan
#71. There is scarcely a person on Earth who has not heard of UFOs; many believe in them. Few, however, can say much about them. Fewer still-even believers-can find much time to think about them. Life finds a way of keeping us occupied with other matters.
Richard M. Dolan
#72. The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.
Timothy M. Dolan
#73. Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.
Michael Dolan
#74. Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States ... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.
Timothy M. Dolan
#75. I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
Xavier Dolan
#76. There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
Xavier Dolan
#78. I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
Xavier Dolan
#79. An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.
Fierce Dolan
#80. I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.
Xavier Dolan
#81. My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.
Michael Dolan
#82. Fr. Benedict Groeschel says it in his uniquely northern New Jersey way: "Celibacy means that we belong exclusively to the Lord, from our brain cells to our sperm cells.
Dolan, Timothy M., Cardinal
#83. I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
Xavier Dolan
#84. I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
Xavier Dolan
#85. I stop in exasperation and almost storm out of the Airstream, fed up with myself and with my sister, filled with that itchy combination of fatigue and anxiety that my entire family produces in me. An allergic reaction for which antihistamines can do nothing. I want a drink.
Caite Dolan-Leach
#86. The subconscious mind, like the Good Lord, can work in a mysterious way, and mine has been known to work in a way that is completely unintelligible, if not downright barmy.
John Dolan
#87. When you have permission from me to be the wolf, you'll have no need for guilt as a human.
Fierce Dolan
#88. I write across several genres. I'm a slut for words. I can't keep it in my literary pants.
Fierce Dolan
#89. Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.
Timothy Dolan
#90. The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.
Michael Dolan
#91. In porn, men give blow jobs like they love men. Women give blow jobs like they love the camera.
Fierce Dolan
#92. The spirits of the dead are all around us, but it is we, the living, that are the true hungry ghosts.
John Dolan
#93. The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
Xavier Dolan
#94. Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
Xavier Dolan
#95. The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.
Michael Dolan
#96. I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.
Robert J. Dolan
#97. I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.
Robert J. Dolan
#98. I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
Xavier Dolan
#99. Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.
Xavier Dolan
#100. The secret of landscapes isn't creation ... It's maintenance.
Michael Dolan
