Jake Johnson Quotes
I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
Quotes to Explore
-
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
-
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
-
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
-
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
-
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
-
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
-
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
-
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
-
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
-
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
-
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
-
Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
-
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
-
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
-
I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
-
Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
-
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
-
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
-
When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.
-
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
-
There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
-
I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
-
I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
