Top 100 Forman Quotes
#1. During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
Mandy Patinkin
#2. Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
Twyla Tharp
#3. I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.
Vincent Schiavelli
#4. I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.
Mike Mills
#5. When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock
Muhammad Ali
#7. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.
Gayle Forman
#8. The fight they had outside the Roseland Theater in front of a bunch of punks and hipsters.
Gayle Forman
#9. He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.
Gayle Forman
#10. Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
Gayle Forman
#11. But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
Gayle Forman
#12. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face.
Gayle Forman
#13. There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.
Gayle Forman
#14. All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.
Gayle Forman
#15. People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
Gayle Forman
#16. My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
Gayle Forman
#17. Music! Goddammit! Music!" Mom screamed.
"We have some lovely Enya. Very soothing," the midwife said.
"Fuck Enya!" Mom screamed.
Gayle Forman
#18. I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.
Gayle Forman
#19. The you you are now is the same you I was in love yesterday, the same you I will be in love tomorrow.
Gayle Forman
#20. I let the memories flood me as I fill one page. Then another. And then I'm not even writing about him anymore. I'm writing about me.
Gayle Forman
#21. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.
Gayle Forman
#22. I realize it's not just Willem I'm looking for; it's Lulu too.
Gayle Forman
#23. Now and Laters. Starbust, Pixie Stix. If she gets too bitchy, just feed her this crap. As long as the sugar high is in effect, you and the wildlife should be safe
Gayle Forman
#25. Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.
Gayle Forman
#27. You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
Milos Forman
#28. I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
Gayle Forman
#29. Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
Milos Forman
#30. Her eyes were open, then on me again like they never left.
Gayle Forman
#31. Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun
Gayle Forman
#32. Mia is walking away, walking toward the other end of the bridge. Without me.
I get it now.
I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.
Gayle Forman
#33. cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive
Gayle Forman
#34. I've always said it's better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it's better to feel this than to feel nothing.
Gayle Forman
#36. Sometimes you make choice in the Life, Sometime choices make you.
Gayle Forman
#37. I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
Gayle Forman
#38. Our band had perfected the art of punk-rock camping, throwing a bunch of crap into the van with, like, an hour's notice and just driving out into the mountains, where we'd drink beer, burn food, jam on our instruments around the campfire, and sack out under the open sky.
Gayle Forman
#39. My husband used to say that scars were like tattoos but with better stories." "I
Gayle Forman
#40. Welcome to the land where Christmas threw up.
Gayle Forman
#41. Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.
Gayle Forman
#42. And eventually your loss normalizes - it integrates into part of your everyday life and you find yourself three or five years later doing okay, changed but . . . but still able to hear your friends' voices, still telling stories about them, still thinking of them every day.
Gayle Forman
#43. Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.
Gayle Forman
#44. As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
Gayle Forman
#45. It's so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure and its pain. The world is a beautiful place. How often do we say this aloud?
Vicki Forman
#46. You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?
Gayle Forman
#47. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anithing can happen in just one day
Gayle Forman
#48. When Allyson smiles, Willem is reminded of a sunrise. A bit of light, then more of it, then a burst of brightness. A sunrise is something you can see all the time and still marvel at. Maybe that is why her smile feels so familiar. He has seen many sunrises
Gayle Forman
#49. I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.
Gayle Forman
#50. I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
Milos Forman
#51. We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days."
"When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked.
"Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.
Gayle Forman
#52. But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have.
Gayle Forman
#53. Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.
Gayle Forman
#54. Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
Gayle Forman
#55. Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don't make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.
Gayle Forman
#56. There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated
Gayle Forman
#57. Bruised but not broken, Dr Robinet told me before I left. I though the was talking about my spirit, but he'd been referring to my ribs.
Gayle Forman
#58. I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia
Gayle Forman
#60. Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
Gayle Forman
#61. I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.
Gayle Forman
#63. I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.
Gayle Forman
#65. Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
Gayle Forman
#66. Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not."
"If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.
Gayle Forman
#67. So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?"
"No. The wind just blew me here."
"What? Like a plastic bag?"
"I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.
Gayle Forman
#68. Remember-doubts may check pride, but too much doubt will keep you from doing what must be done.
M.L. Forman
#69. I have nothing but time in my life, but never enough of it when I need it.
Gayle Forman
#70. So this would like your farewell tour? Of New York? Of Me?
Gayle Forman
#71. Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
Gayle Forman
#72. A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk.
Gayle Forman
#73. Kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly
Gayle Forman
#74. But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.
Gayle Forman
#75. You just work through it. You just hang in there.
Gayle Forman
#76. So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
Milos Forman
#77. Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
Gayle Forman
#78. You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.
Gayle Forman
#79. It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it. Willem
Gayle Forman
#80. Ll I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
Gayle Forman
#81. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come back.
Gayle Forman
#82. I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.
Gayle Forman
#83. We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
Gayle Forman
#84. Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
Gayle Forman
#86. Ou're wrong about quitting when you're ahead. It means being grateful. Stopping when you realize you have is enough.
Gayle Forman
#87. How come you have never written a song about me?
I'm not really good at writing about things that make me happy.
Gayle Forman
#88. That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.
Gayle Forman
#89. Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life.
Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.
Gayle Forman
#90. Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
Gayle Forman
#91. You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.
Gayle Forman
#92. I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.
Gayle Forman
#93. Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
Milos Forman
#94. Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students.
Milos Forman
#95. The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
Gayle Forman
#96. And they seem to forget that you are a mere mortal; flesh and bone, bruisable and scare-able.
Gayle Forman
#97. Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush
Gayle Forman
#98. Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Gayle Forman
#99. Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.
Gayle Forman
#100. I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
Milos Forman
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