Top 100 Ferrara Quotes
#1. Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead
Giorgio Bassani
#2. I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
Park Chan-wook
#3. I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours is a long time. Think about how long that is. It was tricky, but it was a great experience.
Kevin Connolly
#4. My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
Abel Ferrara
#5. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
Abel Ferrara
#6. I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara
#7. It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
Adam Ferrara
#8. The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.
Adam Ferrara
#9. My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
Adam Ferrara
#10. I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
Abel Ferrara
#11. I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
Abel Ferrara
#12. I drove a brand new Lamborghini, the Huracan; it was great. We went on the Autobahn, and we got to drive on the Nurburgring.
Adam Ferrara
#13. Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'
Adam Ferrara
#14. I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
Adam Ferrara
#15. Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Abel Ferrara
#16. I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Abel Ferrara
#17. When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.
Abel Ferrara
#18. I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
Abel Ferrara
#19. The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'
Adam Ferrara
#20. There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara
#21. With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
Abel Ferrara
#22. A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
Abel Ferrara
#23. But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
Abel Ferrara
#24. One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'
Adam Ferrara
#25. I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
Adam Ferrara
#26. I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.
Jerry Ferrara
#27. I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
Abel Ferrara
#28. No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
Abel Ferrara
#29. I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
Adam Ferrara
#30. At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
Adam Ferrara
#31. I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
Abel Ferrara
#32. I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message ...
Abel Ferrara
#33. My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
Abel Ferrara
#34. Sex is important to guys. We need stories to tell our friends.
Adam Ferrara
#35. Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
Abel Ferrara
#36. I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it
if I was hungry, I would talk about food.
Adam Ferrara
#37. The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
Abel Ferrara
#38. It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
Abel Ferrara
#39. It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara
#40. I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
Adam Ferrara
#41. I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
Abel Ferrara
#42. If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
Adam Ferrara
#43. I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.
Jerry Ferrara
#45. The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.
Adam Ferrara
#46. I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
Adam Ferrara
#47. As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Abel Ferrara
#48. Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
Abel Ferrara
#49. I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.
Adam Ferrara
#50. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara
#51. My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.
Jerry Ferrara
#52. I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
Adam Ferrara
#53. As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.
Jerry Ferrara
#55. I would argue that play is an essential part of living. It's the process by which great discoveries are made, industries are built, and people fall in love. The instinctive human drive toward play continuously pushes us to find new ways to understand and influence the world around us.
John Ferrara
#56. I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.
Jerry Ferrara
#58. Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.
Matt Ferrara
#59. 'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.
Jerry Ferrara
#60. Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'
Adam Ferrara
#61. I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara
#62. My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.
Abel Ferrara
#63. I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
Adam Ferrara
#64. The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
Abel Ferrara
#65. Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
Abel Ferrara
#66. As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
Abel Ferrara
#67. I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.
Adam Ferrara
#68. If you look at a group of people that had faith, it's got to be the Jews. They followed Moses through the desert for 40 years with no map. There had to be one guy in the back, like, 'I don't think he knows where he's going.'
Adam Ferrara
#69. Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
Jerry Ferrara
#70. I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.
Adam Ferrara
#71. What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
Adam Ferrara
#72. Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
Abel Ferrara
#73. I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.
Jerry Ferrara
#74. In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!
Adam Ferrara
#75. For all these years, their whole lives almost, she and Alex had been circling each other. During college, Keisha had watched as Alex came out and brought home a string of skinny, whiny girlfriends who wrote poetry and had weird dietary restrictions.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
#76. I sincerely want to meet the girl that was meant for me, but I want to sleep with the girls that weren't.
Adam Ferrara
#77. While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.
Peter Ferrara
#78. I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
Abel Ferrara
#79. My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.
Adam Ferrara
#80. When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
Adam Ferrara
#81. Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Abel Ferrara
#82. I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
Jerry Ferrara
#83. I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
Abel Ferrara
#84. I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
Adam Ferrara
#85. There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.
Adam Ferrara
#86. The most brutal truth
Is the truth unspoken and
Pain is spawned by
a faulty connection.
Matt Ferrara
#87. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
Peter Ferrara
#88. Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
Adam Ferrara
#89. As Needed' - Getting your personal needs met is a core requirement for mental health. Do you know what your needs are?
Tricia Ferrara
#90. I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'
Adam Ferrara
#91. I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in the animal kingdom. No dinner, no movie - just a quick sniff, 'Alright, let's go.'
Adam Ferrara
#92. I love my girlfriend, don't get me wrong. I truly love this woman, but I have the ability to have sex without any emotional involvement. It's a gift.
Adam Ferrara
#93. If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.
Jerry Ferrara
#94. Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.
Adam Ferrara
#95. Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
Adam Ferrara
#96. The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara
#97. As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul ... '
Adam Ferrara
#98. A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
Abel Ferrara
#99. Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara
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