Isabel Gillies Quotes

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

I try to let my game speak for itself.

I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

There's nothing very interesting about my life.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

I'm not much of a show-off.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

Style? I have no style.

The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.