Richard Grieco Quotes

#1. I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

Richard Grieco

#2. I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

Jason Reitman

#3. Quite a merry gathering! ... What's that? Tea! No thank you! A little red wine, I think for me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. I wore ripped jeans and headbands before people wore that. I've been this guy ever since.

Richard Grieco

#5. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

Crazy Horse

#6. Looking back with the infallible benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that anyone believed we could actually have stayed out of that damned war.

Craig Siegel

#7. I usually go out riding late at night when there's no traffic because L.A. has become almost like the Philippines now as far as traffic.

Richard Grieco

#8. One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

Benton MacKaye

#9. I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

Richard Grieco

#10. When I did 'Jump Street', I created that character; it was all me. I walked in and was just me. I could get out of bed and walk on set and be dressed.

Richard Grieco

#11. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Harry A. Blackmun

#12. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

Osbert Sitwell

#13. Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

Jill Vialet

#14. Anger is like hands over your eyes when another person is trying to show you.

Roland Merullo

#15. It's just a wonderful feeling to be a father and to have a kid.

Richard Grieco

#16. William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli

#17. I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

Gordon Lightfoot

#18. You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

Michael K. Powell

#19. Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

Sorin Cerin

#20. Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Ezra Koenig

#21. Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M's

Bill Hader