Bananas Quotes

"It`s a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We`re happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody`s naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

I was crushed when Bush got re-elected. I was so depressed and am still gravely disappointed with the results of both elections. I think history will verify that the world would have been a much better place if the outcome had not been that way. I`m never going to be invited for tea at the White House. But I`ve never gone on stage - before the elections or since - and slagged off Bush. Not because I agree with him in any way, out of respect for the office of President. It`s too obvious to bash Bush. Everybody knows what I think about his policies. We went to a local bar for a couple of drinks to cheer ourselves up. On the way home we passed a couple who were in their sixties. I could see the recognition in their eyes so I said, `How ya doing?`. The old guy replied, `I only got one thing to say to you` - and put his hand in the sign of a `W`. I went bananas - and that wasn`t one tenth of how badly my wife reacted. Needless to say, it`s been a difficult last couple of years. It`s heartbreaking many people now view Americans with suspicion. At one time, we were everybody`s best friend. We could go to places perceived as dangerous territories. Now, I`d think twice about asking our road crew to travel there. (May 2006)

I put on 20 pounds for the film. I drank whole milk with sugar, bananas and ice cream. And chocolate and cookies. - On gaining weight for The Upside of Anger (2005).

Making movies is hard. If you can avoid working you should do it. Ridley (Scott) can`t take more than two weeks between movies or he starts going bananas. I don`t understand those guys at all. You have to get up at five o`clock in the morning, it`s political, and you feel like you`re failing 90 per cent of the time. It`s a tough job.

Hopefully, if not it`s not working right. I`m like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

I`m getting so old, I don`t even buy green bananas anymore.

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I`m assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

If we were just song in and song out, we`d go bananas, ... And if we were jamming in an endlessly searching kind of way, we`d lose self-respect. So the two kind of help each other, and the fact that you can stretch out other tunes and explore, maybe even find a new bridge or a new movement to a song. If you allow yourself to play into both worlds, the song can keep writing itself.

He absolutely loves McDonald`s, especially their chicken nuggets. They don`t get a lot of fruit over there and so he`s absolutely a sponge for Vitamin C. The first day he was here he had eight bananas!

Take bananas -- 25 percent of Chiquita bananas come through New Orleans,