Peter Farrelly quote: "I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off."

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try d...
PETER FARRELLY

'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.
PETER FARRELLY

Every single person involved with the production learned a lot. I'll tell you what I learned. I've b...
BOBBY FARRELLY

We thought that if he didn't use it at the beginning, it's just not as good a before-and-after pictu...
BOBBY FARRELLY

[The alternates, including one in which the two turn down a cushy job,] just didn't work, ... They w...
BOBBY FARRELLY

We never thought this would appeal to everyone. And, you know, some people just don't get it. We're ...
BOBBY FARRELLY

I think the reason why it works first of all is there's a different level of trust. And basically we...
BOBBY FARRELLY

Eddie? I don't even think about him anymore as a disabled guy. I just think of him as a great charac...
BOBBY FARRELLY

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all a...
BOBBY FARRELLY

We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to ...
BOBBY FARRELLY

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's ...
BOBBY FARRELLY

Irene. They weren't making out, which is what he wanted to do.
BOBBY FARRELLY

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they'...
BOBBY FARRELLY

Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw tha...
ELIZABETH FARRELLY

Benicio del Toro. I think he's brilliant, and we like working with guys - or gals - who are very tal...
BOBBY FARRELLY

We were really serious about getting Larry David as Larry. He has the hair. But he seems to be doing...
BOBBY FARRELLY

The hardest thing in the world about making a movie is to satisfactorily end it. We almost always ha...
BOBBY FARRELLY

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's ...
BOBBY FARRELLY

You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and...
PETER CAPALDI

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference ...
PETER THIEL

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand ...
PETER HAMMILL

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and thi...
PETER DEFAZIO

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth...
PETER THIEL

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamor...
PETER SAUL

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the oppo...
PETER GUBER

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health ca...
PETER SINGER

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to...
PETER CRISS

The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what'...
PETER MILLIGAN

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
PETER THOMSON

Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup a...
PETER HELLER

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back ...
PETER MULLAN

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
PETER KRAUSE

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was ...
PETER SCOLARI

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion...
PETER YORK

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would...
PETER SINGER

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. ...
PETER YORK

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ...
PETER DRUCKER

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile acci...
PETER BENCHLEY

I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. C...
PETER CAPALDI

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences t...
PETER JACKSON

Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic...
PETER LANDESMAN

We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part o...
PETER COYOTE

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats...
PETER USTINOV

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired ...
PETER AGRE

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
PETER TORK

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
PETER CAPALDI

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial in...
PETER THIEL

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybod...
PETER CAPALDI

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and...
PETER GARRETT

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable;...
PETER GREENAWAY

Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an...
PETER FALK

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have b...
PETER O'TOOLE

Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing...
PETER YORK

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
PETER DRUCKER

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.
PETER EISENMAN

There's a natural antipathy on the part of the voters to a continuation of globalization as we k...
PETER NAVARRO

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best frie...
PETER EISENMAN

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bothe...
PETER BAYNHAM

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
PETER THIEL

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybo...
PETER GALLAGHER

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept ...
PETER SINGER

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
PETER USTINOV

Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe ...
PETER WELCH

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for ...
PETER USTINOV

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wal...
PETER GUBER

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got ...
PETER BEARD

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do an...
PETER SINGER

People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim...
PETER SIS

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, t...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bow...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also mo...
PETER DIAMANDIS

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed ...
PETER HIGGS

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm no...
PETER HOLLINGWORTH

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
PETER DIAMANDIS

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tend...
PETER HOLLINGWORTH

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you'r...
PETER SENGE

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, sho...
PETER DIAMANDIS

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for exam...
PETER THIEL

An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
PETER THIEL

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
PETER USTINOV

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to m...
PETER USTINOV

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain...
PETER USTINOV

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never g...
PETER USTINOV

A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achiev...
PETER THIEL

'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. S...
PETER THIEL

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
PETER FALK

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new ...
PETER DRUCKER

I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
PETER DRUCKER

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES

Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
PETER DRUCKER

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibil...
PETER DRUCKER

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to com...
PETER USTINOV

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you sho...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with som...
PETER GABRIEL

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
PETER USTINOV

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
U. PETER

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...
PETER MARSHALL

Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. H...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Business has only two basic functions-marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to ...
PETER USTINOV

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
PETER USTINOV

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
PETER USTINOV

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
PETER BORDEN

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.
PETER BLAKE

We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
PETER DRUCKER

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life ca...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
PETER YORK

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
PETER MARSHALL

You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet...
PETER WENTZ

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
PETER SINGER

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understan...
PETER CAREY

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilis...
PETER USTINOV

When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo ...
PETER THIEL

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.
PETER LAWFORD

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic...
PETER BENCHLEY

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begi...
PETER HELLER

He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything ...
PETER HELLER

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethi...
PETER SINGER

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to...
PETER SINGER

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosio...
PETER BENCHLEY

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everythi...
PETER CAREY

Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvar...
PETER BERGEN

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
PETER CAPALDI

I have a fairly normal domestic life.
PETER CAPALDI

I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn...
PETER HELLER

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking...
PETER ZUMTHOR

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it'...
PETER DIAMANDIS

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to p...
PETER ZUMTHOR

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensi...
PETER ZUMTHOR

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
PETER GREENAWAY

I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw...
PETER FALK

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play u...
PETER FACINELLI

Would you rather have cheap, subsidized - illegally subsidized - goods dumped into the Wal-Mart and ...
PETER NAVARRO

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
PETER HOOK

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it ...
PETER YORK

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and...
PETER GARRETT

Public crucifixion is no fun.
PETER O'TOOLE

I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
PETER HOOK

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it...
PETER MAYLE

The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their p...
PETER THIEL

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be no...
PETER STUYVESANT

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we shoul...
PETER LISAGOR

They know there's a gap, and if they're interested in finding out more about why they aren't more co...
PETER FALK

The description of the air and sand going in his mouth when he inhaled while he was under the ground...
PETER CARLISLE

I like languages and I like different European cultures, because I happen to be Russian, Polish, Ice...
PETER STEELE

I think true wisdom is when you realize there's no one left to blame.
PETER STROPLE

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.

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Peter Farrelly

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.

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