Scrape Quotes

So now I`m left with cigarettes, and I`m trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I`ll be done.

Even now, people want to marginalize me. They want to attribute all my success to teenagers seeing my movies. I really resent it when people say, "It`s just a genre film; it`s a teen comedy." It takes a lot of work to make these things have heart and resonance so they`re not just empty, disposable confections. But I don`t give a damn about other people`s perceptions, because I`ll show them. For women in this business, ascendancy is always a battle. It`s scrape and claw. I just try to stick to my guns and respect myself. I want to take the ingenues aside and say, "Value yourself! It`s O.K. if you have opinions!" (On struggling to be taken seriously in the industry.) (Vanity Fair - September 2004 - "Regally Blonde" by Leslie Bennetts)

He is one of the best. He`s outwitted the empire on numerous occaisons, and he has made some very fast deals. One of his problems is that he gambles quite heavily and that`s where he loses most of his money. He`s tough and sharp, but never manages to scrape together enough to get any power...He`s slightly self-destructive and he sort of enjoys being on the brink of disaster...You might meet him and he may be worth ten billion dollars and the next time you meet him he`s in debt up to his ears. - Describing Han Solo

Clearly he made a difference and I think the Ravens thought he did, too. He`s a big body in the middle who allows linebackers to scrape a little more freely.

You can`t make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I`ll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

On "Star Trek" conventions: "I have the best time. My stand-up material is pretty well-set now. The traveling part gets me down, but the actual convention part I still love. I come home after a weekend at a convention, and you have to scrape me off the ceiling. I`m so up and high and full of self-confidence, and I thank the fans for making me feel that way. Sometimes I think I should be paying the fans money to let me be there. I bet they would like that, too. I probably get more out of it than they do." (1994)

I did a grad film but that ended up hurting me more than it helped. My grad film was this over the top, gonzo, completely absurd sci-fi thing with non- professional actors. When you have actors in their fifties who are still doing student films, you`re not going to get top-of-the-line. It was a thing with a teleportation chamber, with a mad scientist and it was completely absurd. It cost $60,000, but it was completely campy, Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988) kinda stuff, so when people looked at the short, they went, `Well, is this how the acting is going to be in Donnie Darko (2001)? We don`t think you can direct actors if that`s anything to go by.` I was like, `Give me a good actor, and I can direct.` It became really frustrating when the short came up and it gave people a reason to pass. I would recommend that if you want to do a short, then do a short that`s one or two scenes from the feature you want to direct, so they can see it. They really can`t think outside the box. If you want to get a feature made, I would go and scrape together whatever money you can get, find an actor who can really pull off one of the parts and shoot a few scenes from your feature screenplay that can serve as a short. That`s the best evidence that you can give them. That`s what Wes Anderson did with Bottle Rocket, it was originally a short film. And it worked."

Which, of course, isn`t the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that`ll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Right now, we all have decent jobs. We`re not, like, struggling artists trying to scrape by.

He`s not good at it, but he will do it. Sometimes he can help clear the dishes from the table, scrape the dishes off, and get them into the dishwasher.