Top 100 Slater's Quotes
#1. I stared at the screen, aware that my heart rate had sped up. Sped up? I was so angry I wanted to ram my fist into the monitor, as if by doing so I could somehow ram it into Paul Slater's rock hard abs. -Suze Simon
Meg Cabot
#2. Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
Uwe Boll
#3. In a world where one man's trash is another man's treasure, I'd argue that the first man wasn't thinking creatively enough about his trash.
Justin Slater
#4. I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
Christian Slater
#5. The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.
Christian Slater
#6. Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.
Philip Slater
#7. I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
Christian Slater
#8. Etsuko was given the name Esther by her teacher, Mr. Slater, on her first day of school. "It's his mother's name," she explained. To which we replied, "So is yours.
Julie Otsuka
#9. For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.
Kelly Slater
#10. Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?
Lauren Slater
#11. I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.
Nigel Slater
#12. Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.
Philip Slater
#13. As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
Christian Slater
#14. When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.
Christian Slater
#15. It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.
Kelly Slater
#16. There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Christian Slater
#17. The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.
Christian Slater
#18. A brush of green olive paste is worth pursuing.
Nigel Slater
#19. I can't speak for all women, but I do think that ... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely ... we're in crisis on a continuous basis ... or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.
Helen Slater
#20. I felt a clot in my throat, something that wouldn't let language come ... And there is also a dream I have over and over again, of opening up my mouth and finding my tongue studded with broken glass, so every word is a wound.
Lauren Slater
#21. Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.
Christian Slater
#23. I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.
Helen Slater
#24. I have become more interested than ever in the effect of a diet higher in 'greens' than it is in meat - both in terms of my own wellbeing and, more recently, those implications that go beyond me and those for whom I cook.
Nigel Slater
#25. I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
Christian Slater
#26. I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.
Christian Slater
#27. Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?
Nigel Slater
#28. No matter how bad things get, it's impossible not to love someone who made you toast. Once you've been through that crusty surface to the soft underneath and tasted the warm, salty butter you'll last forever.
Nigel Slater
#29. Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.
Kelly Slater
#31. It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
Christian Slater
#32. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.
Kelly Slater
#33. Fate has a funny way of intervening in people's lives.
Katie Ashley
#34. That's twenty Slater children if we all meet the quota," Branna mused. "Twenty-five when Damien eventually settles down." I blew out a large breath. "Our poor fuckin' fannies." We burst into a fit of laughter.
L.A. Casey
#35. I do have a Twitter account, and there's a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don't know how many followers I have. It's not one of those things I check on a regular basis.
Christian Slater
#36. I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.
Christian Slater
#37. When you die, there's that much less breath to the world, and across continents someone supposedly separate gasps for air. When Marie, Joseph, peter, Moxi, Oscar, when I weep for you, don't forget I weep as well for me.
Lauren Slater
#38. Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren't what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it's the here and now. It's those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run
Ashleigh Slater
#39. Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
Kelly Slater
#40. Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
Christian Slater
#41. The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
Christian Slater
#42. Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.
Kelly Slater
#43. A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).
Philip Slater
#44. The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.
Helen Slater
#45. Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years since I won my last title and this is my seventh one ... but all those numbers and things are not as important as the feeling.
Kelly Slater
#46. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).
Sloane Crosley
#47. Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.
Christian Slater
#48. I just killed my best friend ... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?
Christian Slater
#49. Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can ... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better.
Kelly Slater
#50. Garlic as fresh and sweet as a baby's breath.
Nigel Slater
#51. I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.
Christian Slater
#52. If I get married, I want to be very married. - AUDREY HEPBURN
Ashleigh Slater
#53. It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.
Gareth Widdop
#54. I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.
Kelly Slater
#55. As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.
Christian Slater
#56. To write? Because all this is ging to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left we nothing, we would be naked on earth.
James Slater
#57. A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.
Kelly Slater
#58. My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
Kelly Slater
#59. Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
Nigel Slater
#60. The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.
Christian Slater
#61. I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.
Nigel Slater
#62. Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
Philip Slater
#63. If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be a part of, but a world, nevertheless, that you at first fit into with the precision of a key to a lock or a neurotransmitter to its receptor.
Lauren Slater
#64. I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.
Kelly Slater
#65. I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.
Christian Slater
#66. Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.
Nigel Slater
#67. Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
Christian Slater
#68. The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.
Christian Slater
#69. Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.
Philip Slater
#70. Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered.
Kenneth Oppel
#71. An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater
#72. Christian turned around and penetrated Slater with his obsidian eyes. "Better talk or I'll introduce you to my two best friends," he said harshly, holding up his fists. "Meet thunder and lightning. If you don't start talking, it's going to storm all over your face.
Dannika Dark
#73. It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Christian Slater
#74. I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.
Helen Slater
#75. Things are screaming inside me and my eyes feel hot.
Lauren Slater
#76. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.
Ashleigh Slater
#79. The clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.
Lauren Slater
#80. The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
Christian Slater
#81. I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.
Christian Slater
#82. Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.
Lauren Slater
#83. It always amazes me how it is so easy to appear one way to the people around you but to live inside as someone else entirely.
K.L. Slater
#84. The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.
Christian Slater
#86. It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.
Kelly Slater
#87. It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
Helen Slater
#88. I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
Christian Slater
#89. Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's
John Cena
#90. Please don't follow in my footsteps. I'm already knee-deep in them, and am sinking rapidly...
Tony James Slater
#91. How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
Christian Slater
#92. Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Christian Slater
#93. Newton's third law says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.' And that's what I'm looking for. My opposite, and my equal." ~ Gavin Slater
Heidi Joy Tretheway
#94. Every accomplishment, no matter how small, deserves a celebration.
Christopher Slater
#95. Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people.
Christian Slater
#96. We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby admit their seductive appeal.
Philip Slater
#98. I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.
Rami Malek
#99. Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Christian Slater
#100. I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.
Christian Slater
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