(on Hollywood in the 1980s) "We live in a snake pit here...I hate it but I just don`t allow myself to face the fact that I hold it in contempt because it keeps on turning out to be the only place to go."
- Orson WellesRosie O`Donnell called me a snake oil salesman. And, you know, coming from Rosie, that`s pretty low because when you look at her and when you see the mind, the mind is weak. I don`t see it. I don`t get it. I never understood -- how does she even get on television?
- Donald Trump(on working with Kevin Spacey on K-PAX and their similarities in working) I`ve been a big fan of his work -- The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, L.A. Confidential. He`s a really good actor and he turns out to be a wonderful guy as well. We approach acting in the same way in that we both enjoy the process. We both like rehearsals and we understand the value of them. There are some actors who don`t like to engage with other actors; they just like to relate to each other between `Action!` and `Cut!` But I`ve always felt that getting to know the people you`re working with can inform and enrich the work. The closer you get, even if you`re playing opposites, the better the work. Some actors are afraid of leaving it all off-camera or getting the characters confused, but I don`t see it that way. I often feel that the actual movie is like the skin sloughed off the snake; it`s the by-product of the real valuable stuff, which is the real-life experience of doing it.
- Jeff BridgesI`m not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I`m not insane.
- Kristin DavisI know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I`d think, no, actually I`m a giraffe.
- Richard GereThe time came for me to retire because of my rather unfortunate last movie . . . The cost to me in terms of frustration and avoiding going to jail for murder cannot have continued. Whenever I`ve tangled with a beautiful spy, have you noticed what invariably happens? Even if I know the girl is a nasty and dangerous little snake, I`ve still had to kiss her first and kill her later. (in 2004) The Scottish media all say, Oh yeah, he`s a tax exile". I have paid more tax than the government put together in that Parliament. I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.
- Sean ConneryI`m not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
- Frank McCourtI have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
- Steve IrwinI`ve probably saved thousands of peoples` lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
- Steve IrwinYou know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it`ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it`s not even funny.
- Steve IrwinI hear it`s a snake pit down there.
- Charles JohnsonYou can`t talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
- C. Everett KoopI always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.
- W.C. FieldsEve in the garden gives Adam a hard on And no one will pardon the snake Look who invents him and later torments him Then makes us repent our mistakes
- Christine AndersonPeople think we don`t give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake`s belly. The reality is still there.
- Rio FerdinandNinety-five percent of snake charmers get bit,
- Chris HillmanI`m fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.
- Lucinda Williams(On working with Daniel Day-Lewis in the movie "The Ballad of Jack and Rose") "It was incredible. I mean, Daniel Day-Lewis and I were enemies in the movie. I`m the "snake" and his daughter Rose is the "rose". You couldn`t get any more opposite from the character I play in ("The Girl Next Door") than the one I play in that. I`m the villain, the snake, sleazy and like this sexual creature. There were days when we wouldn`t even look at each other until the end of the day because we were intense. I got into that; it was great. It would help me, too. You know, I look up to him. Before I even auditioned for the movie I did so it was incredible.
- Paul DanoIts head and face resembled an alligator, ... It looked to have armored plate over its blue eyes with orange colored cheeks, a body like a snake that felt like a dogfish and had big fins that looked like feet with toenails underneath.
- Ralph CarterIts head and face resembled an alligator. It looked to have armored plate over its blue eyes with orange colored cheeks, a body like a snake that felt like a dogfish and had big fins that looked like feet with toenails underneath.
- Ralph CarterIn the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today`s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.
- Charles KrauthammerA pet snake, for instance, forces you to go places where other people with pet snakes might be. You`re finding people in their natural habitat, in a snake store looking for freeze-dried rat.
- Andrea MillerOne of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.
- Steve Brown(The Subsistence disc will include the a modified version of the single-player mode of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. As revealed at E3, it plays the same as the original MGS3, but will feature a number of additions, including more camouflage and face paint options, and a controllable camera angle.) First-person shooters are popular overseas, and the camera angle in the original MGS3 wasn`t too popular, ... A (camera angle) engine was already in development, so we decided to add it.
- Hideo KojimaIf you see a snake, just kill it - don`t appoint a committee on snakes.
- Ross PerotShe started out all excited and impressed. ... (She took an immediate dislike to Bill, who struck her as a narcissistic snake.)
- Walter KirnI don`t know if anyone has noticed, but there are a lot of good race cars out here, ... This is the best field (of Funny Cars) I`ve ever seen and that goes back to the days of `Snake` and `Mongoose,` Bernstein and the `Blue Max` (references to Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen, Kenny Bernstein and the car driven by three-time champion Raymond Beadle). I raced against all of them and I got spanked regular. But, bottom line, it`s tougher now. There are no easy rounds.
- John ForceUse your enemy`s hand to catch a snake.
- Aden DarityEven if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
- Alan CropseyThe world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can`t wake up.
- Alan SandalsIn social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
- Aleta JacksonOwing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
- Alex ZissonNever wound a snake; kill it.
- Alexander JodorowskySnake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I`m at now. I mean, he`s shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
- Allison DuncanI love the comic roles - I get the laughs, and I get to go home before anybody dies, ... And this guy is so universal - there will always be snake oil salesmen, won`t there?
- Anthony StasioI stepped on something just the other day. When I raised my foot I saw a snake.
- Asfandyar KhanIf you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all
- Japanese Proverb