John Hughes Quotes

• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

  John Hughes

  Breakfast, Hiding, Bizarre

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• Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

  John Hughes

  Thinking, People, Serious

  "John Hughes: In Memory" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it.

  John Hughes

  Life, Events, Ass

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• At the time I came along, Hollywoods idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

  John Hughes

  Sex, Teenager, Boys

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• I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

  John Hughes

  Taste In Music, Causes, Outcast

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• Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

  John Hughes

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

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• I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

  John Hughes

  Hate, Writing, Going Away

  "John Hughes" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2009.

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• When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

  John Hughes

  Monday, Ideas, Tuesday

  "John Hughes in Interview". www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2009.

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• It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

  John Hughes

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Sitting

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• Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

  John Hughes

  Eye, Kissing, People

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• I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

  John Hughes

  Brother, Hippie, Clothes

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• A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

  John Hughes

  Men, Ties, Wife

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• Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

  John Hughes

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

  John Hughes

  Christmas, Spring, Dirty

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• Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

  John Hughes

  Rocks, People, Twenties

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• I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

  John Hughes

  Movie, School, Doctors

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• I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

  John Hughes

  I Like You, Actors, Half

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• Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

  John Hughes

  Jobs, Fun, Writing

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• It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

  John Hughes

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

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• The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.

  John Hughes

  People, Generosity, Valleys

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• I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

  John Hughes

  Kissing, Screens

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