Sandals Quotes

"Never would I have agreed to appear in "Sword and Sandals" films if the Italian producers had not immediately agreed to pay me twice the fee I was usually offered. I simply did not have the moral strength to refuse such an amount of money."

A hippie was sort of the unwashed, unkempt kid. A freak was someone who put a lot of care and intention into their appearance, wanting to stand out instead of blend in. I was a combination flower child-freak, because the former was all about love and sharing and adoring each other and having flowers in your hair, literally, and lace and feathers and all that. I never considered myself a hippie. She`d be wearing one of those Indian madras-type skirts with her hair split down the middle, no makeup, sandals, braless - of course, we were all braless. I would have on an old vintage lace tablecloth with ribbons woven through it, feathers in my hair, loads of makeup, sequins stuck all over my face, and spike heels."

I was raised in Southern California. I had never been out in snow before. It was the coldest winter of my life. I freezed my ass off and you can`t wear sandals in the snow. It was our first Christmas together. Johnny was so sweet. He went out and bought me a red setter puppy and he took me to Central Park for a buggy ride.

"But I always liked the Greek outfits. They were sexier than the Romans`, you`ve got to admit. And they didn`t wear sandals. They wore boots. So don`t call it a sword-and-sandal (movie), for Christ`s sake! It`s sword-and-boot, OK?" (on `Alexander`)

(On The Da Vinci Code) I`d love to make a movie that shakes the world and offends people, but I really. Didn`t think it was going to be this one. I think next to The Last Temptation of Christ it`s Tonka Toys. Nobody seemed to get offended by Martin Scorsese`s movie, no one seemed to get offended when Francis Coppola made a movie where he suggested that the mafia and the Vatican were in cahoots. Nobody picketed that. I play a monk who murders people, but it`s no more a comment on monks than it is on people who wear sandals. Or big long brown dresses.

From the side I could see the confirmation of those dreadnaughts. Even when she bent forward to put on sandals, the configuration of those pregnant t--s did not change one iota.

Again the hug, again the swirl of skirts, again the super-sandals squeaking away down the linoleum. Then silence. And peace.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn`t go and doesn`t suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we`ve no money for butter