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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Hardboiled Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Hardboiled Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Hardboiled Quotes

Powers Boothe

I’ve always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

– Powers Boothe

Paul Morrissey

Rome has New York’s formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.

– Paul Morrissey

Megan Abbott

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

– Megan Abbott

Martina McBride

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

– Martina McBride

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I always have hard-boiled eggs with me to eat egg whites for protein. Even when I travel, I bring eggs with me so I don’t eat the plane food. Yes, I’m the person you do not want to sit next to with hard-boiled eggs.

– Marissa Jaret Winokur

Luis Alberto Urrea

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

– Luis Alberto Urrea

Lisa Hanawalt

The way I eat in my day-to-day life is, like, very simple to the point of being absurd. Like, my boyfriend makes fun of me because if I’m eating a snack, it’s often, like, a pickle and then a hard-boiled egg and then crackers and then maybe a carrot, and it’s like I’m eating like a baby.

– Lisa Hanawalt

Ken Bruen

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn’t actually know I was Irish.

– Ken Bruen

Jonathan Ames

I’ve always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That’s how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

– Jonathan Ames

John de Lancie

I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations – I’m not usually playing the person in reaction.

– John de Lancie

Jesse Kellerman

I ought to be more hardboiled; I’d like to be. I don’t think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes… I can’t do it, so why bother trying?

– Jesse Kellerman

James M Cain

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

– James M Cain

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