James Bobin Quotes

I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.

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• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Just
  • News
  • Entertainment

• Uchimura is the greatest of all time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Greatest

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Weak

• I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Electronic

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Important

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Better
  • Relationships

• I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Music
  • Character

• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Projects

• Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Now

• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Same

• Wizards was about the creation of the state of Israel and the Holocaust, about the Jews looking for a homeland, and about the fact that fascism was on the rise again, I thought. That was way before the Right Wing made their appearance again, and I felt that things were shifting back. So on that level, Wizards was a very personal film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Holocaust

• 'Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Freedom
  • Solitude

• Toni: Mamá... MAMÁ! I'm paying peak long-distance rates here. Could you save the Hail Marys until we hang up?

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Long
  • Distance

• Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Fighting

• I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where we focus on women! We tried for a minute, but we don't want to lose the category all of a sudden. We haven't heard yet from the females with children called mothers, we haven't heard yet from all these groups!" On the one hand I'm very sympathetic to that, but the category of Women or Mothers, any of these categories, are on shifting sands and always have been.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Movement
  • Feminist
  • Trans

• I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Years
  • Difficult
  • Questions

• I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

  

  Joel Silver
  • Happy

• When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Friends
  • Comedian
  • Laughed

• I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.

  

  James Bobin