The Birdcage Quotes

#1. I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

Nathan Lane

#2. Maybe like the bat in the birdcage, Gavriel had been waiting for dark, waiting to get out of the chains, drink Aidan's blood, and escape. But when she showed up, he figured he could use them for a ride through daylight, so long as he seemed harmless enough to need saving. A chill crept up her spine.

Holly Black

#3. Where did they get this guy? Seriously, fresh from the Birdcage club?

Khalia Hades

#4. Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

Nathan Lane

#5. Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

Christine Baranski

#6. Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. The dictator's black hand had
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons

Zoe S. Roy

#8. Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

Julian Bond

#9. Oh, my faith has flagged at times. It's easy to fall back into the same routines and paint over the sublime with coat after coat of indifference ... I promise you something: when you have touched the face of God, you can never unlearn what you have learned. You can never unsee what you have seen.

Garth Stein

#10. again. Fail again. Fail better.

Nicole Williams

#11. When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

Francis Chan

#12. Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov ... the written word is not sacrosanct.

Alan Arkin

#13. There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Alan King

#14. Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

Stuart Rose

#15. I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked. I did not care how a story was written. There were no bad stories: every story was new and glorious.

Neil Gaiman

#16. Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

Darren Hayes

#17. The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source ... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

Mitch Kapor

#18. I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

Orson Welles

#19. Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.

Henry Cuyler Bunner

#20. One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.

Philip K. Dick

#21. It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

Laini Taylor

#22. I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

Beeban Kidron

#23. What is time then? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I do not know.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Amos Oz

#25. What do you think the odds are this is going to be one of those cases where the butler did it? Because I could sell that story to any magazine in the country just for the headline.

Richard Castle

#26. Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

Anthony Marra

#27. Every birdcage deserves to be annihilated because every bird deserves to be free!

Mehmet Murat Ildan