Top 44 Slick Quotes

I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that – which is part of my game – but it’s just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don’t see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It’s too late.

You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.

I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls – he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did it in a really artistic way.

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn’t use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Being slick is not the right answer.

Too many times I see these omnipotent detectives who know everything, who pull up in really slick cars, and their hair’s all really nice and the girls fall in love with them. They haven’t earned the right. It just doesn’t happen like that.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

If you’re looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He’s destroying our economy. I’m a doer, not a talker.

I’m from the South, and there’s a different understanding of how to chop. There’s a syllable play. It’s a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you’re from a certain area, words don’t roll of your tongue as slick.

You know ‘Ninotchka?’ I recommend it. It’s kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.

‘Evita’ was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It’s the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I’d ever seen before myself.

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage – including unfair damage – from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I had seen ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ and I thought that was a different kind of film than I’d seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we’re sometimes playing quieter stuff, it’s hard to sound like we’re trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

I’m not slick. I’m not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

My superheroes are Meth, Keith Murray, Busta Rhymes, ODB, Xzibit. The superheroes before us were EPMD, Slick Rick, Rakim.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Charles Hatley is a good fighter. He comes with pressure and he likes fighting. He’s got a good style and he can bob and weave and be slick.

Sean’s movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.

I’m not handled. I’m not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I’m a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.

I’ve gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don’t really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.

Clearly I’m able to read emotions. But I do feel… What is it? Awkwardness. I’m not a slick dude. That’s what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness… that’s quite real.

We live in a homogenized world, where it’s hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of ‘Mamma Mia’ the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

I use shea butter, olive oil, Shea Moisture – the coconut hibiscus bottle. A mix of that. If I want to do a slick bun, I’ll use Eco Style Gel even though it has fragrance in it. Oooh, scary. I’ll survive. I keep using it because it works.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There’s no other storyteller like this man.

At the time we did ‘Night,’ I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated… we wanted the opposite look for ‘Night.’ We wanted it to look like a newsreel.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

‘CSI’ was an amazing experience, which, looking back, I was very lucky to get. They shoot an entire episode in eight days, so everything has to be totally slick and professional.

I wasn’t going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I’m actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the ‘Hunger Games.’

We have defined these characters – people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one – much like when they see Jon Hamm’s hair when it isn’t slick – they say, ‘Wait a minute, you’re all 2010!’

Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn’t about slick moves or great skills. It’s about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

I think I’ve been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, ‘We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.’

We’ve just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.