Sniff Quotes

(on researching his role as Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)) I read a lot of correspondence dating from that period. Decent middle-class lives with wives and children were abandoned to pursue this elusive possibility. They were bank clerks and shipping agents and teachers. They all fled West for a sniff of cheap money. And they made it up as they went along. No one knew how to drill for oil. Initially, they scooped it out of the ground in saucepans. It was man at his most animalistic, sifting through filth to find bright, sparkly things.

I don`t want people thinking of me sexually. I don`t want people to be like, `She`s hot-looking,` you know? I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then. It just completely throws people off. I had a couple of offers to do some hot scenes in the shower with some guy and to make it real hot and sexy. The next thing you know, I`d be the next J.Lo or something. But that`s easy. I want (success) the hard way.

I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then.

I`m sure Michael is really looking forward to going back and showing his old public what they are missing. He`s exactly what we thought we were getting _ he can sniff goals out of nothing, and that`s what makes him such a very, very special player.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.