Pedro Almodovar Quotes

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.