Spun Movie Quotes

#1. She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment.

Paulo Coelho

#2. To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Melissa Leo

#3. As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

Terence Winter

#4. You say to me that there is more to life than hurling but if you want to carry on like a fella who is not an inter-county hurler, well then there will be more to life than hurling. Lots more. But there won't be hurling. That's the reality of it.

Brian Cody

#5. Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet.

Thomm Quackenbush

#6. When the Dutch ambassador tried to humiliate her by refusing her a seat, Nzinga had shown her power by ordering one of her advisers to all fours to make a human chair of her body. That was the kind of power I sought ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than to quantity; it teaches that God does not ask how much we do, but how we do it.

James Freeman Clarke

#8. Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Josh Billings

#9. It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

Charles Lyell

#10. I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

Eric Roberts

#11. There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.

Scott Cohen

#12. When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

Trent Reznor

#13. I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

Eileen Myles

#14. By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.

John Irving