“You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds... and Francis Ford Coppola.” PersonsFlightPlanesGraySingle PersonCarolsDe Niro Author:Paul Reubens
“I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsLooksFilmDangerTerribleDirectOkayThirdsBiggerFlukes Author:Paul Reubens
“I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which I think is a cool jump of faith for them. Or proof that they're really stupid. But I don't think so.” ThinkingStupidDirectorsDirectStudiosProofApprovedReally Stupid Author:Paul Reubens
“I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.” ThinkingWaySituationLimitsBehaveAssumptionWherever You Are Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.” ThinkingWayCoursesAcceptingExamplePositionLike YouAuthorityPrisonerSyndromesSubmissivePressuredStockholm Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.” IfsWantCountryPerspectiveCautiousTreason Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.” WayImportantHandsAbleProduceBalanced Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.” GivingFeelsTryingFightingViolenceInformationAbusePrivilegeCrueltyPrisonerJealousHumiliationFilling Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always keep in mind that I had to rebel and to keep my distance and to protect my soul because the core of the problem is dignity.” MindChildrenImportantSoulMatterProblemForgetAcceptingDutyNeededProtectAuthorityDignityMy FamilyNo Matter WhatImportant ThingsDistanceCoreMy SoulMy ChildrenGet BackRebel Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.” WantFeelsLosesIdentityRoutineStakesObligedLosing Yourself Author:Ingrid Betancourt