Portnoy Complaint Quotes

#1. Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

Jane Birkin

#2. I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

Robert De Niro

#3. I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

#4. The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Irving Howe

#5. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Dorothy Parker

#6. Dream! That's all you need to do.

Arnold Arre

#7. Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

Ally Condie

#8. It's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

William Safire

#9. I'm not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!

Charlie Sheen

#10. I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

Clayton Christensen

#11. You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#12. Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

#13. favorite person. Whatever. I didn't care. Blake

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#14. Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.

Zadie Smith

#15. Where are you getting your material - Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking

Laura Lippman

#16. IN SAYING "YES" LIES THE ANTIDOTE TO OUR FEAR.

Susan Jeffers

#17. 'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.

Richard D. Zanuck