Stinks Quotes

"I had it (smoking), it stinks". "Entertainment Tonight" (1981).

Life stinks, but that doesn`t mean you don`t enjoy it.

Here we are in the 70`s when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it`s just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It`s exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

I always thought it would be fun to play (Marilyn) Monroe. But who could play her, you know? You can`t do it right out, you can`t do her story without letting yourself for all kind of criticism. Candy Cane is like a lot of women were in the 60s when Monroe was a star and a role model. She comes from a small town, she`s in a bad relationship, but she`s fighting to get out of it, to change, and she enters this fantasy land. She has the bleached blond hair like many women had at that time and she thinks it would be fun to be like Monroe. So she follows the fantasy in her own small way and she finds out, guess what, that glamorous life stinks! She sets herself up to be abused and destroyed like Monroe was. - on playing Candy Cane DuJean in Ruby (1992) and her likeness with Marilyn Monroe

As an actor, if there`s a good role you can take it for the role`s sake and not worry about the fact that the whole story doesn`t seem to work. The actor won`t get the blame for it. You`ll do a good job and they`ll say, `The story stinks, but Sondra Locke was good in the part of whatever.` I look on acting as a great vacation now. You work a few weeks, get paid a lot of money and everyone pampers and takes care of you.

On principle I don`t have favorites. To pass judgment on something you`ve done is a face-saving act, and I think it kinda stinks. There are all kinds of movies, all kinds of impulses and all kinds of needs for people watching movies, and sometimes I`ll do a movie that I don`t particularly care for, but then I`ll run into someone that it speaks to and they love it. So for me, to give my personal take on it, could mean ruining that movie for someone else, because they can find pleasure where I can`t. - On his favorite roles.

I want to be adopted by the french. I want to go to live in Paris. I want to live in a country where a guy like Gaspar Noé can direct his films without going to jail. I don`t want to live in Italy, the country of the apes, and end up being an actress with an onion placed where I once had a heart, that instead of beating, it stinks.

I wouldn`t wish divorce on my worst enemy. It`s just a lousy thing to go through. I disagree with people who say `oh, its a good time now we can get divorced.` There`s no good time to get divorced. It stinks, it`s a lousy thing.

(regarding her version of "God Bless America") Irving Berlin had a fit when he found out I was doing it. He called my manager and said, "If that teenybopper louses up my beautiful `God Bless America` the way she did poor Harry Ruby`s `Who`s Sorry Now`, I`m going to have a stroke". My manager said, "Please, Irving, relax. You`ll be the first to hear it." "I just don`t want it loused up with any of that `Stupid Cupid` crap!", said Irving. Then when the record came out, my manager sent it directly to (him) and he said, "She did it just the way I thought she`d do it. It stinks! It`s worse than that." I can`t even tell you what he said. So, when it made the Top 10 in Variety, Irving called my manager and says, "George, do you think she can do `God Bless America` on "The Perry Como Show" (1948)?

People recognize certain things, like `D` means `this dialogue stinks.` We`re dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

I think today`s music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

They`ve pumped Delmon Young ever since he was drafted in (2003). They`ve been pumping B.J. Upton, and they`ve just been getting a little taste. For (those) two not to get called up (stinks). ... At the same time, (Delmon) knows he did everything asked of him, and then he went above and beyond the call of duty. ... It doesn`t make sense.

I know this isn`t (Devil Rays manager) Lou Piniella, ... This is ownership worrying about dollars and cents instead of the message they`re sending out to their players and the fans, especially the fans. They`ve pumped Delmon Young ever since he was drafted in `03. They`ve been pumping B.J. Upton and they`ve just been getting a little taste. For them two not to get called up (stinks).

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

Baghdad stinks. There`s constant water in the street. There`s no one to pick up the trash, so it all piles up outside. ... All the American toilet paper was clogging the Baghdad sewer system. It wasn`t built to take it, so there`s backed-up water everywhere and kids playing in it. Baghdad is just a dirty place.

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

Being on the DL and knowing that you are not coming back the rest of the season is not fun at all, ... It was a really tough pill to swallow. Not being able to go on the road trips (stinks). It`s rough.

Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, it stinks to high heaven,

Unfortunately in the U.S., that`s how we do it. In Switzerland and Germany, the pushers basically stick with the drivers, and it kind of stinks being in USA-2 because everybody wants to be in USA-1.