I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
Click on the picture of Chuck Palahniuk quote you want to see a larger version.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Click on the picture of Chuck Palahniuk quote you want to see a larger version.
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
- Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
- I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
- Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
- Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
- If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
- Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
- I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
- All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
- Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Best Quotes
- When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.
- The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.
- Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
- For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
- Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
- I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
- Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.