Capote Quotes

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
James Wolcott

Everyone, Off, Show

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey

Sad, Sensitive, Impression

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
Chris Pratt

Love, Him, Actor

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
Joshua Foer

Whole, Used, Memory

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
Toby Jones

Time, Food, Down

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
Toby Jones

Early, Test, Sound

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
Debbie Harry

Down, Said, Sit

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
Joseph Epstein

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.
Teddy Thompson

Beautiful, Gay, Writing

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
Rich Little

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke

Before, Seriously, Taken

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
Gerald Clarke

Mind, Deep, Writing

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