Top 100 Quotes About Condon
#1. Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.
Melissa Rosenberg
#2. I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Rami Malek
#3. People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.
Todd Lieberman
#4. By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.
Stanislaw Ulam
#5. I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.
Kerry Condon
#6. In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
Bill Condon
#7. This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Eddie Condon
#8. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
Zach Condon
#9. When are you gunna forget that? It was ages ago.'
Only last year, actually. Reggie was convinced he had cancer because he had a black pot on his tongue - he switched to tea bags after the doctor told him it was a tea leaf.
Bill Condon
#10. I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not.
Bill Condon
#11. It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Bill Condon
#12. Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Eddie Condon
#13. Sometimes words just don't get you there ... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
Bill Condon
#14. One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
Bill Condon
#15. Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.
Richard Condon
#16. I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
Zach Condon
#17. Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Bill Condon
#18. Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
Richard Condon
#19. I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
Bill Condon
#20. I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.
Zach Condon
#21. In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.
Zach Condon
#22. Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
Zach Condon
#23. In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
Zach Condon
#24. A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
Bill Condon
#25. I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.
Kerry Condon
#26. Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
Eddie Condon
#27. Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
Eddie Condon
#28. I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.
Zach Condon
#29. I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back ... I can only say; God Save Ireland!
Edward Condon
#30. I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.
Zach Condon
#31. I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
Zach Condon
#32. I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.
Kerry Condon
#33. I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
Bill Condon
#34. Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.
Richard Condon
#35. In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.
Richard Condon
#36. You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.
Zach Condon
#37. She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.
Bill Condon
#38. Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
Eddie Condon
#39. Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud.
Carl Sagan
#40. I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.
Zach Condon
#41. It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
Bill Condon
#42. The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave.
-Lt. Edward Beale, Congress report on Arizona, 1858
Sean Condon
#43. While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
Bill Condon
#44. My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.
Kerry Condon
#46. Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
Bill Condon
#47. It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
Zach Condon
#48. What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.
Richard Condon
#49. I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.
Zach Condon
#50. When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
Bill Condon
#51. I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.
Zach Condon
#52. I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
Zach Condon
#53. I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
Zach Condon
#55. I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.
Zach Condon
#56. Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.
Bill Condon
#57. I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.
Zach Condon
#58. I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
Bill Condon
#60. Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
Bill Condon
#62. There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
Bill Condon
#63. There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.
Zach Condon
#64. No piece of writing is ever finished. It's just due.
Bill Condon
#65. It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'
Zach Condon
#66. I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together before deciding what goes next. I even mix before moving on ... in other words, I write by recording.
Zach Condon
#67. I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.
Kerry Condon
#68. I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.
Zach Condon
#69. I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there.
Kerry Condon
#70. The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.
Zach Condon
#71. Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
Eddie Condon
#72. As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
Eddie Condon
#73. We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
Bill Condon
#74. And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Bill Condon
#75. I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was ... New York.
Zach Condon
#76. For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
Eddie Condon
#77. Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
Bill Condon
#78. I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
Zach Condon
#79. I'll save me money, thanks. Already diagnosed meself, anyway. I'm a cactus.'
'Cactus? Right. Great work, there, Doc. I'm glad you're not my bloody doctor.
Bill Condon
#80. I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too.
Kerry Condon
#81. I smile at the phone, wishing Reggie could see me.
'You're alright then, luv? No dramas?'
'Not a one.' I reach the kitchen. 'Thanks for thinking about me.'
'Gotta look after my girl. Only one I got.'
My smile gets even bigger.
Bill Condon
#82. I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
Bill Condon
#83. I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
Zach Condon
#84. I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
Zach Condon
#85. Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
Bill Condon
#86. I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
Bill Condon
#87. I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
Zach Condon
#88. I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.
Zach Condon
#89. I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.
Zach Condon
#90. [Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
Eddie Condon
#93. I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
Zach Condon
#94. As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.
Zach Condon
#95. You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!
Kerry Condon
#96. You can't expect to win the war if you send archers into battle armed with only a bow and an empty quiver.
Diane Condon-Boutier
#97. My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
Bill Condon
#98. Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.
Richard Condon
#99. I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.
Kerry Condon
#100. I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
Bill Condon
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