Jake Short Quotes

I play on a soccer team.

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• I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Directing

• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

  

  Larry King
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Jealous

• It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Compassion

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Country
  • Alone

• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Point
  • Favorite
  • Starting

• I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Great
  • Women
  • She

• Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Mom

• I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid.

  

  Ken Jeong

• Yesterday was the first time I saw Kevin Durant in a Warrior T-shirt. I like did a double-take; it was the weirdest thing ever, because it's still kind of fresh.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Warrior
  • First Time
  • T-shirt

• If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Writing
  • Weekend
  • Benefits

• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• I play on a soccer team.

  

  Jake Short
  • Team
  • Soccer