Bob Balaban Quotes

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Bob Balaban

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Think

• We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Would
  • Push
  • Probability

• You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • You
  • Just
  • Throw

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Man

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Experience
  • History
  • Law

• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Memory

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Why

• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Film

• De la musique avant toute chose,Et pour cela préfère l'ImpairPlus vague et plus soluble dans l'airSans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.Il faut aussi que tu n'ailles pointChoisir tes mots sans quelque méprise:Rien de plus cher que la chanson griseOù l'Indécis au Précis se joint.

  

  Paul Verlaine

• I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Jesus
  • Gentle
  • Severe

• What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Creation
  • Proof

• The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • God
  • Quality
  • Cool

• God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • God
  • Money
  • Movie