Own Material Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also…
— Marie Curie
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
— Rick Moranis
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What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and…
— Kathleen Turner
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A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.
— Serge Nubret
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... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected…
— Keith Jarrett
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
— Steve Albini
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There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance…
— Pauley Perrette
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I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured…
— Jane Monheit
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the…
— Alan Dean Foster
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One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self…
— Malcolm X
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So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be…
— Steve Forbert
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The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I…
— Suzi Quatro
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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd…
— Todd Solondz
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I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
— Tom Skerritt
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and…
— Frank Darabont
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
— Alan Bradley
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I never got nervous performing my own material.
— Wiz Khalifa
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When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and…
— Kevin Nealon
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I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and…
— Lou Reed
Who Wrote These Own Material Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Own Material Quotes as follows: