Phil Hartman Quotes

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

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• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
  • Control
  • Doing

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• No one needs anything; they have to want it.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Anything

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Talent

• I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • May
  • Honor
  • Fight

• A laugh is a terrible weapon.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Laugh
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

  

  Andrew Card
  • Important
  • War
  • Help

• Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

  

  Leah Busque
  • Business
  • Faith
  • Service

• I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

  

  Nellie Bly

• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• I would like to make something very clear: Blue Lives Matter!

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Blue

• I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Friends
  • Career