Bill Irwin Quotes

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

Bill Irwin

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Country
  • Want
  • Artist

• I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Bookstore
  • Clerks
  • Credit Card

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Nobody
  • Mr

• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Stereotypes

• A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Great
  • Team
  • Sacrifice

• As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Past

• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Wise
  • Creative
  • Generosity

• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Cost

• I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Feel

• The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • World
  • School
  • Guy

• My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Name

• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Forever

• We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Change
  • Health
  • Understand

• America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Great
  • America
  • Shopping

• I've never been the tallest or the strongest or the fastest. But I'd like to think that I can read the game well enough, that I can position myself well enough, that I can level the playing field when it comes to physical differences. When it comes to height, whoever wants the ball more is going to win it.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Game

• I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

  

  Bill Irwin