Portnoy Complaint Quotes

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

Charlie Sheen

#2. '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

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

Susan Jeffers

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#7. 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

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

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Ally Condie

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

Arnold Arre

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Irving Howe

#16. 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

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

Robert De Niro