Top 192 Spike Quotes & Sayings

Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them?

I love Spike Jonze. He's brilliant.

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!

I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke.

Some people compare Spike Spiegel to Dirty Harry, and they're both antiheroes. But Spike is an extension of myself.

Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.

I felt a little anxious/nervous representing a real person in a Spike Lee film.

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'

In my opinion, Spike Lee is a national cultural treasure - to the black community in particular but to America in general.

Spike Lee's been doing it for a long time now. We're all standing on his shoulders.

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

Working with Spike Lee was a dream of mine. It was amazing to be able to collaborate with such a visionary.

Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.

The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.

So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School of Spike Lee. He's almost set up an Institution of Spike Lee.

We live in a global market and money's fungible and hedge fund private equity is looking for momentum plays, and there ain't no momentum plays in bonds, right? When the interest rates were spiking up or down, well they never really spike down they do spike up though. Something's got to happen, there's got to be motion, the dice has to be rolling on the board, and if it's not then they're not going to play because they're not going to get the adrenaline rush from looking at... you know, money markets fund interest rates or bond interests or whatever. It's got to be sexy.

Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.

General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.

I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

Spike Lee is one of my biggest influences. What I love about Spike, other than he's just a fun guy to hang around, is that Spike is fearless. As much as people talk about him being politically outspoken, let's not forget that he's one of the best screenwriters, ever, in addition to being a visual master.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

The film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky - his films are hard to watch - they're so dense and rich - but they're probably the best things ever made. And Spike Milligan, who was light years ahead of the rest - I played some of his stuff to Jack Black once. He'd never heard of him, so watching him listen to Spike for the first time was just hilarious.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

You saw what network support did for Strikeforce when Showtime came aboard. You saw what Spike TV did for the UFC when they came aboard, because the UFC was dying before Spike came along.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

It's good to team up with Spike and Viacom. I see a lot of potential.

Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

I've watched Spike Lee's career with interest, and he seemed to be striving for an original and moral point of view.

It is fun, I learned, to stroll around with Spike Lee and to gauge other people's reactions. Everyone recognizes him.

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.

Me and Spike Lee are good friends. I got a lot of respect for Spike just because of who he is, what he stands for, and the support for that organization. Even when it was bad he was there.

I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.

If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.

Take care and spike your hair. WWWYKI!

Spike Lee really gave us a platform, men and women of color.

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

I was playing a role and acting. But it was different than Spike Lee's movie. Spike can say 'cut' and move to the next scene. But I was pretending to be a white supremacist, one of them. I had to act like them to make the ruse a success.

I like movies made by Spike Lee - doing those films out of the U.S., that is really daring.

MMA fans should thank Spike TV for their commitment to the sport.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.

Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

On a Spike Lee set, everybody seems to want to be there and is motivated to work in unison and do the best they can.