Weegee Quotes

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

I'm the most successful filmmaker in the country; what do I need PR for?

I feel like I'm the Kanye of the NFL.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.