Bill Hader Quotes
When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
Quotes to Explore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
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Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.
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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
