Christopher Miller Quotes
Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really hard to tell a story while also making people laugh. It's like trying to do two jobs at once.
Quotes to Explore
-
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
-
I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
-
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
-
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
-
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
-
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
-
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
-
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
-
Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
-
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
-
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
-
I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
-
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
-
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
-
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
-
If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
-
There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
-
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
-
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
-
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
-
Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
-
It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future.
-
The essence of life is in remembering God.
-
Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really hard to tell a story while also making people laugh. It's like trying to do two jobs at once.
