Top 39 Quotes About Lennie
#1. Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.
John Steinbeck
#2. And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.
Mose Allison
#3. And I get to tend the rabbits ... Lennie giggled with happiness.
John Steinbeck
#4. Girl rabbits in an' tells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day.
John Steinbeck
#5. Lennie Smullenski and Anthony Zuck bake the goodies in the back room in big steel ovens and troughs of hot oil. Clouds of flour and sugar sift onto table surfaces and slip under foot. And lard is transferred daily from commercial sized vats directly to local butts.
Janet Evanovich
#6. Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
Carolyn See
#7. But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.
Jandy Nelson
#8. with five other officers to pick up no less than eleven prisoners of six different nationalities. These were the men from the sailship, The Lennie, who were accused of murder on the
Joan Lock
#9. Nice talk," he hears Lennie say dimly from the insane universe where God has clearly died and lies stinking on the floor of a pillaged heaven.
Stephen King
#10. Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
Jay Parini
#11. Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
John Steinbeck
#12. What's your major, Lennie? Oh yeah: Dorkology.
Jandy Nelson
#13. I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
Lennie James
#14. I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.
Lennie James
#15. Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world
John Steinbeck
#16. One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.
Lennie James
#17. A young Buddhist frog took a leap,
into some traffic, "Beep, Beep!"
He sprang from his feet,
jumping into the street,
and soon became one with a jeep.
-The Ginger Poem of the Month
Lennie Peterson
#18. I like playing guys where it's as important what they're thinking as what they're saying. Those are the people I like playing, and the actor that I strive to be. I like actors who work in that area and I like parts that allow me to work in that area.
Lennie James
#19. My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
Lennie James
#20. It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.
Lennie Tristano
#22. I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.
Lennie James
#23. I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
Lennie James
#24. I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.
Lennie James
#25. My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.
Lennie James
#26. I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.
Lennie James
#27. The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
Jandy Nelson
#28. I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
Lennie James
#29. If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
Lennie James
#30. When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
Lennie James
#31. I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.
Lennie James
#32. I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.
Lennie James
#33. Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play!
Lennie Tristano
#35. The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
Lennie Tristano
#36. If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.
Lennie James
#37. I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.
Lennie James
#38. One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.
Lennie James
#39. Regardless of whatever "rights" we think we may have, giving the Lord a bad testimony will never be one of them.5
Lennie Spitale
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