Michael Wincott quotes
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet.”
- From the movie: The Count of Monte Cristo
“- Armand Dorleac: And if you're thinking just now 'why me, oh God?' the answer is: God has nothing to do with it. In fact, God is never in France this time of year.
- Edmond Dantes: God has everything to do with it. He's everywhere. He sees everything.
- Armand Dorleac: All right. Let's make a bargain, shall we? You ask God for help, and I'll...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Crow
Dad gave me this. Fifth birthday. He said, "Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die".
- From the movie: Dead Man
“I'll tell you one thing: if that there Blake fella keeps on shootin' marshals, I might end up liking the bastard!”
- From the movie: Ghost in the Shell
“I'm human. I'm flawed. But I embrace change... and enhancement. Now there's nothing I can't do. Nothing. Nothing I can't know. Nothing I can't be.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“My worst work happens when I get obedient.”
- From the movie: Strange Days
“The only time a whore should open her mouth is when she is giving head.”
- From the movie: Basquiat
- From the movie: The Crow
“Our friend T-bird won't be joining us this evening on account of a slight case of death.”
- From the movie: Basquiat
“What is it about art anyway that we give it so much importance? Artists are respected by the poor because what they do is an honest way to get out of the slum using one's sheer self as the medium. The money earned, proof, pure and simple, of the value of that individual, the artist.”
- From the animation: Treasure Planet
- From the movie: The Crow
“Nothin' in this town happens without my say-so. So I'm sorry if I spoiled your wedding plans there, friend. But, if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face.”
- From the movie: Basquiat
“- Rene Ricard: What's your name?
- Jean Michel Basquiat: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- Rene Ricard: Oh my God, you sound famous already!” - From the movie: The Crow
“All the power in the world rests in the eyes.”
- From the movie: Talk Radio
“- Barry: We've brought Kent on board to get an inside look on the future of America. Kent is the classic American youth: energetic and resourceful, spoiled, perverse, and disturbed. Would you say that's an accurate description, Kent?
- Kent: Yup, sure!
- Barry: Now what do you call that haircut?
- Kent: I don't know... Rock and roll!
- Barry:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Alien: Resurrection
“- General Perez: Drink, Elgyn?
- Elgyn: Constantly.” - From the movie: Strange Days
“Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.”
- From the movie: The Crow
“Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!”
- From the movie: Along Came a Spider
“I am living proof, that a mind is a terrible thing.”
- From the movie: Gunshy
“A man once told me that the only thing you really own is a piece of ground the size of your shoes.”
- From the movie: Basquiat
“When I speak nobody believes me, but when I write it down everybody knows it to be true.”
- From the movie: Metro
There's a saying in Naples: "When you think you're fucking them, they're fucking you".
- From the movie: Basquiat
“How many pictures did he sell, one? He couldn't give them away. He has to be the most modern artist, but everybody hated him. He was so ashamed of his life that the rest of our history will be contribution to Van Gogh's neglect. No one wants to be part of a generation that ignores another like Van Gogh.”
- From the movie: Basquiat
“You can never explain to someone who uses God's gift to enslave, that you have used God's gift to be free.”
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