David Eigenberg Quotes

I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.

David Eigenberg

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• At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Feel
  • Door
  • Walk

• I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Home
  • Married

• When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Wonderful

• I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Think
  • English
  • Teeth

• When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Single
  • Sometimes

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Dad

• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Family
  • Parents
  • College

• In my head, I believed even though I am an actor, there was no need to dance. That's not me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Dance
  • Actor

• I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Fight

• I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Respect

• A despotic power makes slaves.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power

• These calciferous glands (see Fig. 1), judging from their size and from their rich supply of blood-vessels, must be of much importance to the animal. But almost as many theories have been advanced on their use as there have been observers.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Animal
  • Judging

• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Great

• Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.

  

  Alberto Giacometti

• I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn’t mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Hand

• When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • People
  • Important
  • She

• The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • World
  • Future
  • Question

• As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • People
  • Football
  • Player

• Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • You
  • Know
  • Cool

• I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.

  

  David Eigenberg