A Quote by Albert Brooks

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
American - Actor
Born: July 22, 1947

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

Anthony Burgess

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

John Braine

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

George Meyer

A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

Walter Darby Bannard

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

Robert Burns

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

Ronald Firbank

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

George R. R. Martin

I played a eunuch in 'Shabnam Mausi' with Ashutosh Rana and no one even knew when the film released.

Vishwajeet Pradhan

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

Howard Fast

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

Franz Grillparzer

There is a very thin line when a man plays woman. If you're not careful, you may end up looking like a eunuch. If you don't enact your role properly, you can look very bad.

Javed Jaffrey

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

Teri Garr

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.