Quadrophenia Quotes

#1. My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

Phil Daniels

#2. I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Sting

#3. The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Jon Landau

#4. It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Phil Daniels

#5. I do all I can to let my students feel as normal as possible, as far from institutionalized. I see how easy it is to allow this conveyor belt of incarceration bring them from my facility to an adult detention, often for the rest of their lives.

Thomm Quackenbush

#6. Cash winks at me from in front of the stove and pure lust twitches in my lower belly. There's no denying this man is hot. Effing hot. Probably hotter than the stove he's cooking on.

M. Leighton

#7. My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'

Brenton Thwaites

#8. He may not have said the words, but I know my son. I saw the way he looked at you."
"How?"
"Like he'd do murder for you.

Jessica Spotswood

#9. But, look; it also exists for acts that are really established. It's not always a guarantee that you're going to do something that's going to be of quality. It's not always in your control. That's sort of how the business is. Because for the moment - for the moment, we're blessed.

Steve Zissis

#10. Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

John Adams

#11. Nothing lasts forever,' I said, flicking cigarette ash into a cut-glass tray. 'We all have a short time, to shine or just survive.

Tara Hanks

#12. You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't.

Glen Duncan

#13. Jesus says, "Do not look here, do not look there, for the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Miguel Conner

#14. I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.

Jennifer Melzer

#15. Somehow, we both got carried away. I don't know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

Brenda Perlin

#16. Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

Kevin Spacey

#17. Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

Jonathan Ames

#18. Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

Lasse Viren

#19. Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of 'Mary Jane' for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember.

Mark Forsyth