Top 100 O Neill Quotes
#1. In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at
Ravi Zacharias
#2. Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.
Mike Ingham
#3. One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
Libba Bray
#4. Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.
Marisha Pessl
#5. I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
Ron Suskind
#6. O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
Gabriel Byrne
#8. I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin Hart
#9. Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.
Meredith Willson
#10. Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again ... I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill were laughing.
Woody Allen
#11. I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.
Maud Adams
#13. When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
Mae West
#14. When authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the police to stop it.
Bill Bryson
#15. If I say I will protect you, I will."
~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neill
Brenda Joyce
#16. 1. The Amazing Race
2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans
3. Oh.
(Joe O'Neill, from Opium)
Dave Eggers
#17. People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning.
Shane KP O'Neill - The Gates Of Babylon.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#18. If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.
Woody Allen
#19. I slipped one of the shoes off, looked at the inside. Property of Antonia O'Neill Taylor. I knew it. My stepmother! The bitch meant to bury me wearing her cast off shoes!
MaryJanice Davidson
#20. My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
Michael Caine
#21. The best things in life aren't free ... they're given freely, but you have to work hard to keep them - Shane KP O'Neill
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#22. There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof. - Ellie O'Neill
Jennifer E. Smith
#23. Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.
Ronald Reagan
#24. John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
Cornel West
#25. I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional ... waiter, for 3 years.
John Krasinski
#26. She tugged warningly on his shirt. "I am serious! Are you going to marry me, Sean? Finally?"
He smiled, and the light of his smile filled his eyes. "Damn it, Elle! Will you not let me take the lead? Ladies do not propose marriage!"
~Sean O'Neill & Eleanor de Warenne
Brenda Joyce
#27. Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'
Joe Torre
#28. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.
Chris Matthews
#29. I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work.
Charles Duhigg
#30. From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.
Tony McCoy
#31. You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
Ken Burns
#32. He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophy
Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan
Chris Matthews
#33. I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."
~Sean O'Neill
Brenda Joyce
#34. The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
Newt Gingrich
#35. We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I will be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill.
Lindsey Graham
#36. He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular
Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan
Chris Matthews
#37. Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
Craig Shirley
#38. Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it
Dwight Yorke
#39. I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O'Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.
Tony McCoy
#40. Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.
M.C. O'Neill
#41. He had not known a world that did not have her in it. Yet now he was going to discover just that.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#42. Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.
Joseph O'Neill
#43. I channel surf like probably most people.
Ed O'Neill
#44. The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.
Martin O'Neill
#45. Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.
Jack O'Neill
#46. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'Neill
#47. Any time I sit down at my laptop to write and I'm feeling lazy, or that I can't be bothered, or if I'm generally just lacking inspiration, I sit there and remember life with my ex-wife, and the words flow from my fingertips.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#48. Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully!
Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people's thinking!
Jennifer O'Neill
#49. If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
Heather O'Neill
#50. What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
Eugene O'Neill
#51. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill
#52. Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.
Tip O'Neill
#53. Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
Gerard K. O'Neill
#55. I hate doctors! They'll do anything ... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.
Eugene O'Neill
#56. Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
Joseph O'Neill
#57. Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?
Mary O'Neill
#58. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.
Martin O'Neill
#59. I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
Heather O'Neill
#60. When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.
Eugene O'Neill
#61. In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy.
Heather O'Neill
#63. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'Neill
#64. I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'm afraid that's me. Honestly, I'll just take one massive big 'woof' and I shall be gone. Heart - gone!
Martin O'Neill
#65. Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill
#66. Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!
Eugene O'Neill
#67. You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child.
Heather O'Neill
#68. They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just
Heather O'Neill
#69. She was as secure as a sixty-year-old woman whose husband has never cheated on her.
Heather O'Neill
#70. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!
Jennifer O'Neill
#72. You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.
Joseph O'Neill
#73. Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
Eugene O'Neill
#75. As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.
Heather O'Neill
#76. Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.
Eugene O'Neill
#77. Lucifer's breath was like fire upon his skin. His eyes bulged from their sockets and he fought hard to breathe.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#78. How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.
Eugene O'Neill
#79. I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.
John O'Neill
#80. A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
Jennifer O'Neill
#81. They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?
Heather O'Neill
#82. One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
#83. I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
John O'Neill
#84. I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy, everything would go to hell.
Joseph O'Neill
#85. What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.
Heather O'Neill
#87. In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
Ed O'Neill
#88. I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
Ed O'Neill
#89. After a couple of somehow frightening evenings over the course of which each of us was, there can be little doubt, impressed more and more powerfully by the mental illness of the other, we restricted our friendship to the stairs.
Joseph O'Neill
#90. Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
Joseph O'Neill
#91. Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Eugene O'Neill
#92. We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.
Eugene O'Neill
#93. You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really - except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.
Eugene O'Neill
#94. A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.
Heather O'Neill
#95. He had intense gravitational force. He was like Saturn because Saturn has so many moons. If I kicked my shoes up in the air, they would go into orbit around him.
Heather O'Neill
#96. I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
Ed O'Neill
#99. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.
Heather O'Neill
#100. It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder.
Heather O'Neill
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
