Rotten Quotes

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.