quote-zotic.js

export function quote() {
  let quotes = [
    "It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.",
    "To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.",
    "I think I jump around more when I'm alone.",
    "I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.",
    "I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.",
    "I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.",
    "Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.",
    "Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.",
    "I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.",
    "My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.",
    "As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.",
    "I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.",
    "To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.",
    "I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.",
    "Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.",
    "I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.",
    "I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.",
    "I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.",
    "I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.",
    "If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.",
    "All of my characters have a glint of madness.",
    "At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.",
    "I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?",
    "There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.",
    "I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'",
    "Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.",
    "I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.",
    "I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.",
    "One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.",
    "I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.",
    "I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.",
    "It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.",
    "One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'",
    "Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.",
    "Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.",
    "When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.",
    "I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'",
    "I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.",
    "Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.",
    "Every great story seems to begin with a snake.",
    "I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.",
    "If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.",
    "The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'"
  ]

  let min = 0 
  let max = quotes.length - 1
  let rando = ~~(Math.random() * (max-min) + min)
  return quotes[rando]
}