Jake Johnson Quotes

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
  • Age
  • Parenting

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Shows

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Thought
  • Lose
  • Speech

• It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Think
  • Perfect

• People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Happy

• I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Trying
  • Respect
  • Shy

• Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Nothing

• If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I felt it was really important to come here to see what was happening in New York. So, I came to see film and accidentally I stumbled upon theater, so I discovered Andre Gregory, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and theater became my first anchor.

  

  Babette Mangolte
  • Important
  • Anchor

• I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • World
  • Future