Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I like actors - I used to be one.

Charlie Kaufman

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• The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Truth
  • Practice
  • Politics

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Action

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Characters

• We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Get
  • Painful
  • Through

• I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Everyone
  • Meet
  • Almost

• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Writing
  • Things
  • Photography

• I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mythology
  • Belongs
  • Yeti

• By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Writing
  • History
  • Age

• When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • World

• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Cool

• It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Reality
  • Complexity
  • Marxist

• I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

  

  Dot Jones
  • World
  • Pretty

• I like actors - I used to be one.

  

  Charlie Kaufman