Onion Quotes

"Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another."

American movies to me - and, I mean, I`ve said this before a million times - are becoming more and more homogeneous because the marketing objective - and marketing now plays such a major role in movies that it almost obliterates everything else - the marketing objective is the lowest common denominator. "You can`t put that in; let`s put the car chase, let`s put the sex scene, let`s put the fight in, let`s get them back together, they end up happily, they walk off into the sun..." So that there`s a formulaic predictability to American movies. That, allied with the cynicism of the way movies are put together - product placement and spin-offs and toys and all kinds of crap that, you know, have nothing to do with the telling of stories - they`ve turned American movies into McMovies. So that when the movie-goer gets his movie, it`s like a hamburger: he doesn`t want a piece of aubergine in there; he wants his onion, his tomato, his hamburger and his bun. And he doesn`t want the bun hard, he wants it soft. And he wants it in two minutes.

I want to be adopted by the french. I want to go to live in Paris. I want to live in a country where a guy like Gaspar Noé can direct his films without going to jail. I don`t want to live in Italy, the country of the apes, and end up being an actress with an onion placed where I once had a heart, that instead of beating, it stinks.

It`s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it`s probably best to start with other people. It`s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn`t be a cop anymore.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

You`re so wrapped up in layers, onion boy, you`re afraid of your own feelings!

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they`re cooking.