Opie Quotes

#1. Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

John Zakour

#2. My oldest brother was in 'The Andy Griffith Show' as one of Opie's friends.

Suzanne Crough

#3. I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

George Lindsey

#4. I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

Keith Thibodeaux

#5. Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe,
"How do you like Gaboriau?"
"I like him very much indeed!"
Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.

Julian Street

#6. If I ever gave you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream. 2

Stephen King

#7. I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie.

Rachel Vincent

#8. My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#9. Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner's in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie on Sons of Anarchy and the entire cast of The Walking Dead.

Stephen King

#10. I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

Catherine Opie

#11. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Catherine Opie

#12. I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

Catherine Opie

#13. I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

Catherine Opie

#14. Unless a man has something to lift, he can never find out how strong he is.

Opie Read

#15. The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Catherine Opie

#16. When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies ... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

Catherine Opie

#17. I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

Catherine Opie

#18. I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

Catherine Opie

#19. My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

Catherine Opie

#20. Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Catherine Opie

#21. I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

Catherine Opie

#22. One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

Catherine Opie

#23. I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

Catherine Opie

#24. I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

Catherine Opie

#25. I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

Catherine Opie

#26. The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

Catherine Opie

#27. Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

Catherine Opie

#28. I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Catherine Opie

#29. Things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

Catherine Opie

#30. Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

Catherine Opie

#31. If you can't go to Hollywood
You don't have to cry;
Clark Gable is good looking
But so am I.

Iona Opie

#32. There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

Catherine Opie

#33. Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two.

Iona Opie