Peter Biskind quotes

“Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.”
-- Peter Biskind

#Marriage Quotes #Wedding Quotes #Noon Quotes

“I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.199, Macmillan

#Sex Quotes #Men Quotes #Two Quotes

“Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.235, Macmillan

#Men Quotes #Artist Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.178, Macmillan

#Years Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Politician Quotes

“I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.211, Macmillan

#Age Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Youth Quotes

“It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan

#Falling In Love Quotes #Stars Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.270, Macmillan

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.”
-- Peter Biskind

Source : Peter Biskind (2010). “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

#Perfectionist Quotes

“Marriage isn't a carnival ride.”

“you can't be value free when it comes to marriage”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”

“Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

Source : 1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.

“In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.”

Source : "My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel". Book by Ari Shavit, November 19, 2013.

“They threw me off the haytruck about noon.”

Source : The Postman Always Rings Twice ch. 1 (1934)