Quote

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Kevin Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kevin Smith
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 2
Actor
Blogger
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Writer
Red Bank
New Jersey
Kevin Patrick Smith
People
Taught
Overseas
Whether
Convert
Religion
Missionary
Two
Failed
Anything
Havens
Work
Haven
Something
Anybody
Flicks
Years
Hundred
Inane

More quotes by Kevin Smith

Image
If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.
Kevin Smith
Image
More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
Kevin Smith
Image
I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.
Kevin Smith
Image
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
Kevin Smith
Image
I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.
Kevin Smith
Image
I'm not even supposed to be here today.
Kevin Smith
Image
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
Kevin Smith
Image
This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?
Kevin Smith
Image
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
Kevin Smith
Image
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
Kevin Smith
Image
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
Kevin Smith
Image
If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.
Kevin Smith
Image
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
Kevin Smith
Image
Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.
Kevin Smith
Image
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
Kevin Smith
Image
In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.
Kevin Smith
Image
Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
Kevin Smith
Image
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards
Kevin Smith
Image
I just love movies, so suddenly, you’re political about movies, and that’s dark. It’s just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
Kevin Smith
Image
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
Kevin Smith