Collector Quotes

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

I'm a huge poster collector.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.