Danny McBride Quotes

I don't really care about awards.

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• I admire people who destroy themselves.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Admire
  • Themselves

• I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Reading

• The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Religious

• The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Movies

• If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Gun

• H. E. Butler's translation:

  

  Quintilian

• In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Mind
  • Period
  • Professional

• No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Comedy
  • Universe
  • Disrespect

• My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Parents

• Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Mother
  • Listening

• 'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Journey

• If you want to direct, you've got to work.

  

  John Goodman
  • Work

• I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Know
  • Sex
  • Nothing

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Music
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I don't really care about awards.

  

  Danny McBride