Fanatic Quotes

(On John Huston) It`s another aspect of the character that pleased me: he was interested in other things besides his art. He liked women, gambling, living the high life. He could have a life parallel to his work. I could identify with this type of behavior. But, because of this very fact, he became attracted more and more by other things, so that what interested him in life moved him away from his art to the point that he nearly lived a tragedy. And the tragedy brings him back to reality. If you study Huston`s life, you realize that at the age of nineteen he thought he didn`t have long to live because of a heart defect a doctor has notified him of as a result of a misdiagnosis. It drove him to elaborate a personal philosophy according to which he would profit from life to the maximum. He didn`t take care of himself - he was a confirmed smoker, a heavy drinker - and yet he lived to be more than eighty. Paul Newman spoke to me about him when we were acting at the same time, each in a different movie, in Tucson, Arizona. He was starring in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) and I was doing Joe Kidd (1972) with John Sturges. Huston drank martinis and smoked cigars all night long, slept from one o`clock to four o`clock in the morning because he was an insomniac, did everything he shouldn`t do to live to be old, and yet he died at a very great age! It was the same thing with John Wayne, who was first of all the opposite of a health fanatic.

I am a Roman Catholic. Not a fanatic, but I practice enough to keep the franchise. I don`t always agree with the Pope . . . there are issues that concern me, like abortion, contraception, the ordination of women . . . and others. I think the Church should open up.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I`ve got the time.

I`m a Star Wars fanatic.

I think that`s a shift in thinking too. You just have to do something. You don`t have to be a fanatic; you don`t have to do three hours in the gym.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I am not a fanatic. I do work out when I`m not on the road, three times a week for 40 minutes.

A fanatic is one who can`t change his mind and won`t change the subject.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we truly believe that ALL red-state residents are ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying road-kill-eating tobacco-juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks; or that ALL blue-state residents are godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing Communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts? Yes. This is called "diversity," and it is why we are such a great nation - a nation that has given the world both nuclear weapons AND SpongeBob SquarePants. And so today I am calling upon both sides in the red-blue rift to reach out. Maybe we could have a cultural-exchange program between red and blue states. For example, a delegation from Texas could go to California and show the Californians how to do some traditional Texas thing such as castrate a bull using only your teeth, and then the Californians could show the Texans how to rearrange their football stadiums in accordance with the principles of "feng shui" (for openers, both goalposts should be at the west end of the field). Or maybe New York and Kentucky could have a college-style "mixer," featuring special "crossover" hors d`oeuvres, such as bagels topped with squirrel parts.

I`m a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it`s a major offence.

When Domino`s Pizza approached M5 Industries and asked us to design and build the Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch, I knew it was something we wanted to be part of.

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Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

You don`t know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want to have them, even if they have to keep them at some sort of twisted altar someplace down in the basement.

Overall, I think I`m in pretty good shape, but I`m not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.