Toni Garrn Quotes

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

I was kind of a spastic, creative kid.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I'm just a quiet guy who loved to fight.

Salman is a paradox. He has this image of a moody actor who turns up late for shoots or doesn't turn up at all. And then there is this image of him as a kind-hearted, loving, and giving man. From my experience with him, I have to say that I have never seen the bad boy image at all.

Nothing feels comfortable in rock 'n' roll.

I feel like when people meet me, I'm very much not what they expected I would be. I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.

A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.

In Arabic, 'Naseem' means a gentle breeze. But inside the guy's a monster.

I live a pretty crazy lifestyle.

I unleashed my wilder side in 'Manmarziyaan' while playing the character, who is impulsive, colourful, does things without thinking too much.

Anybody who knows me knows I'm a handful, I'm aggressive, I'm loud, I'm obnoxious.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.