Bob Akin quotes

“You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.”
-- Bob Akin

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“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”

“I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.”

“Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.”

“The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.”

“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.”

“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.”

“You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.”

“Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.”

“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.”

Source : Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

“I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.”