Thomas Harris Quotes

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

A lion never roars after a kill.

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

The truth comes out... I think when you fight you find out who you are

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.

I'm little but I'm old.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

I think in losing we find out who that person really is.

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.