Bill Nye Quotes
I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.
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From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
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I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
