Darrell Hammond Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
-
There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
-
I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
-
I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
-
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
-
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
-
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
-
Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
-
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
-
I work twice as hard as everybody else.
-
I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people – not a large group, but quite a few people – who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
-
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
-
I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
-
We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
-
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
-
I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
-
I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.
-
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
-
To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. (p. 161)
-
The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
-
If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.
-
When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.
-
I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.
-
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
