Martin Henderson Quotes

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

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• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Suffering

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Long
  • Remember
  • You

• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • Night
  • Comedy

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• Comedy's really subjective, you know.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Know
  • Comedy

• If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• Comedy requires a lot of energy.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Energy
  • Comedy
  • Lot

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Soul
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Serious
  • Excited
  • Dramatic

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Work
  • Country
  • Experience

• The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

  

  Dave Holland
  • Style

• I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Time
  • Spring
  • Beach

• I spent my childhood in Delhi. I have met my wife here. I spent my life here with my parents and sister. It's been beautiful. But I have very fond memories.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Parents

• Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Long
  • Auto

• I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • World

• I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Comedy
  • Serious