Gene Simmons Quotes

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

I don't like to just grab any ol' role.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

This is a tough business, and you're asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they're hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

Someone - a man - advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.

I don't want to go to Bollywood just to prove I've worked there.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

I really value passion for the product above experience.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.