Sarah Weinman Quotes

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

I made a misstatement, and I stand by all my misstatements.

I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

I said, 'I'm a rock star. I can't preach in nobody's church. Are you crazy?' Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.