Wallowing Quotes

I loved her tremendously. It didn`t seem fair, ... Instead of wallowing in self-pity, I decided to run away.

(on Sam Peckinpah) Sam is, I think, a great filmmaker. Of course, he`s his own worst enemy. Sam is an unusual human being, and he needs to be treated like an unusual human being. He can create an atmosphere, whether he`s drunk, sober, pissed off or in a rage, or whatever. I mean, for about three or four hours a day, he`s a fucking genius. But the rest of the time he spends wallowing in a kind of emotional reaction to either good or bad memories.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can`t build on it; it`s only for wallowing in.

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.