Twisted Quotes

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"I want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal."

- Lucas Grabeel

Yeah, I suppose I am ordinarily drawn to the darker stuff. You won`t find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don`t speak to me. People don`t come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I`m this dark, twisted, miserable person.

- Naomi Watts

I`m not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. Actually, I think that it`s the comedians who are the darkest people on the planet, because they think life`s just bloody hilarious. - on the usual dark roles that she is known for.

- Naomi Watts

It was a very magical upbringing, the quality of feeling special and people treated us special. You tried real hard to remember all the normal things, so you didn`t get twisted. I think they managed to bring me up well when Hollywood was very Hollywood. I`m obviously unusually aware of second-generation people in the business. The statistics are appalling! There are only about 3% successes.

- Edward Albert

(on if he prefers to play edgier twisted characters) Well, I`ve been cast as them . . . and I like to work, so I take those roles. You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

- Brad Dourif

(on James Dean) Dean`s body was very graphic; it was almost writhing in pain sometimes. He was very twisted, as if he were cringing all the time. Dean was a cripple anyway, inside -- he was not like (Marlon Brando). People compared them, but there was no similarity. He was a far, far sicker kid and Brando`s not sick, he`s just troubled.

- Elia Kazan

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

- John Cusack

Yeah, the thing is, when people think `70s, they think disco, but we`re not disco, we`re like Kiss, Rolling Stones, Twisted Sister.

- Laura Prepon

If you don`t show the actual violence and the audience provides their own violence, it`s much more gruesome. This is a guy who spent a lot time planning and preparing, and what was he doing? He was punishing people for their sins. He had a moral agenda. A twisted moral agenda, but do you know how many people do? People in high places. - on the violence in Se7en (1995)

- Morgan Freeman

My favorite villains are the ones you don`t see coming. What I enjoyed about playing Caleb was that he was so very, very clever, so very, very sweet, and so very, very twisted. I liked that he`s not a typical villain. He`s soft and sweet and righteous, and yet he`s perverted and twisted in his head.

- Nathan Fillion

Generally, when I get offered these roles they`re twisted or odd. It`s never a straight-up romance. Like, the character can`t speak or they turn out to be a serial killer.

- Paul Giamatti

I think Daniel (Daniel Craig) is a very fine actor. These are rocky waters, but I think he will have the last laugh. You get twisted some way or another if you throw yourself into it. There`s going to be mishaps.

- Pierce Brosnan

I like villains because there`s something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They`re motivated.

- Russell Crowe

My dad was one of the first guys on the block to have a VCR. So along with all the videotapes that I would rummage through, I would find porno movies. Not that it twisted me into some maniac or anything. I was watching porno from age 10 to 17. I had an interest in it.

- Paul Thomas Anderson

If I were spiteful, I would remind you that it is only fitting that a twisted, narcissistic psychopath, obsessed with public attention, will soon have his world reduced to an isolated solitary existence in an 80-square-foot cell doomed to languish away the rest of your miserable life, alone,

- Jeff Davis

I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq`s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.

- Joseph Wilson

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

- Tom Araya

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

- Tony Curtis

I just twisted it a little and got hit on it. I could have played. I`m fine. We just made the decision not to play.

- Luol Deng

and I innocently hit an electric commercial streak, writing some songs and making some music that was just an exploration of a particular moment in my creative path but struck a chord in the country part of the culture at the time. Unfortunately for me, it sent me into a bit of self-consciousness where I sort of abandoned the patience and started thinking, `Oh, I`ve made money for these people, now I`ve got to make more money for them.` The funny thing about me is I was twisted enough that I didn`t think about the money I was making for myself. I come from a lack of privilege, post-Depression era people, and we would never presume that we possessed the worthiness to strike it rich on our own. So it sent me into trying to write hits, and it`s not my favorite time of my -- would you call it a legacy? -- my career. That`s the point where I got self-conscious, and self-consciousness is the enemy of good art. You`ve got to come from the innocent, subconsciously clear place.

- Rodney Crowell

I knew right away and I was kind of in denial to start with. I tried to walk it off but I heard a pop. I got caught in one of those situations where someone kind of twisted me and sat on my leg and you know, what are you going to do?

- Rex Grossman

It`s a twisted little look at cultural imperialism as refracted through a relationship between a trust-fund stoner and a male prostitute, ... It`s really fun.

- Alan Ball

I have some cool talents. I`m really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I`m a big athlete and especially love soccer.

- Genevieve Padalecki

You don`t know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want to have them, even if they have to keep them at some sort of twisted altar someplace down in the basement.

- Michael Shaw

Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry`s complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

- Steve Schmidt

I`m not a bitter and twisted loser - Sir Alan made the right choice in Tim. I need to be taken on to the next level.

- Saira Khan

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

- Andrei Lankov

It`s kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days,

- Armin Mekelburg

When I landed I twisted the ankle. If there had been two minutes to go and the scores were level I would have called injury time, strapped the ankle and kept playing.

- Ashley Jackson

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn`t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

- Hugh Elliott