Parked Quotes

(on working as a teen-age extra in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)) I was just a local kid. I got to come out of the church, the same church where I sang in the choir, and scratch up a row of cars - a Jag, a Bentley - parked in front. I thought, I get paid for this! Years later, I saw the director, John Schlesinger, at the Edinburgh festival, where we were showing My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). I play a hooligan punk in that too. I said to Schlesinger, `I guess I haven`t progressed much.`

I was on my way out of a Sunday rehearsal. When I was walking out of the gym, all sort of sweaty, half in street clothes and half in Aragorn`s clothes, waiving the sword around, trying to keep a mental picture of what we`ve just done. Just walking down the street, down to where my car was parked, on a Sunday afternoon, waiving the sword around, looking like some desperate Rasputin character. Cops car comes: there`s been some report...

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn`t that the banjo player`s Porsche parked outside?

If I had a chance, I would have parked the car in front of the hospital and said, `I`m not leaving here,`

But in a strange way, the more organization and the more preparation you do, the more freedom it gives to the performances and to those things that are totally dependent on those moments when you shoot. Visual things are very complicated. I can`t improvise visual events. I can`t improvise a sense of composition. I have to compare. I have to look at the street where we are shooting on. I have to know where the light is coming from. Obviously, you would have to know where the trucks are parked and stuff like that. But what you cannot legislate for is emotion, the way emotion displays itself in a scene and that always comes from the actors. That is the way I work.

(on the reason he didn`t appear in The Godfather: Part III (1990):) If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that`s fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did. (Francis Ford Coppola) came to my farm, parked his car ... went in the kitchen. (I) said: `I know you always wanted the crab cake recipe, let me cook it for you.` Oh, he loves to eat, so I cooked the crab cake... and he wrote it down ... and he forgot it, so he called twice. He was ... more concerned that he forgot the crab cake recipe than would I be in Godfather III. (January 8, 2004)

We believe we parked them in what will be high ground, but with the water level what it is, there is no high ground.

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year`s Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

One night there were two cars parked below our house and we got up and turned on the porch lights, ... These men just started yelling, then they got into the cars, which backed down the path and tore down a fence as they took off.

Someday we`ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Obviously, we`re parked right next to each other in the garage,

(Noise is) not an issue all day long. It`s not something I would report unless they parked outside my house for all hours of the day.

(A neighbor said he spotted Tony Clement, 60, inside a white suburban parked outside Hillcrest Elementary School performing a lewd act.) I clearly saw it, ... I ran to my home to get a camera, I ran back to the vehicle with the camera, turned it on so I could expose this person.

I didn`t know it was the Boss` spot ... I moved my car real quick. They told me that I was parked in the Boss` spot. I just ran inside and got my keys and moved it.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.