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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
-
Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
-
I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.
-
I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
-
I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.
-
If the right guy pops the question, I'll say yes.
-
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
-
I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
