Ernest Quotes

I`d love to do a sequel. Even if it was `Ernest Goes to Mars 3`- if these girls were in it, I`d do it in a minute. (Referring to Josie and the Pussycats (2001) in an interview she gave to TV Guide (Issue #2505, 31 March 2001; article title "What`s new, Pussycats?" by Josh Rottenberg))

From Ernest Hemingway`s stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don`t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, (Ramón del Valle-Inclán) and others . . . Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?

I`ve never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

(On his Feud with Ernest Borgnine): All the Oscars in the world can`t buy him dignity, class, and talent. I don`t know why he is famous and why he is a star. Talk about a lucky jerk.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Women, being the beautiful things that they are, love to have feminine touches around the house. They love gorgeous fabrics like lace. I mean, Ernest, when was the last time you bought tassels for the drapes.