Fred Armisen Quotes

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

Fred Armisen

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• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge

• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Important
  • You
  • Patience

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I would love to have played Gollum.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Played
  • Would

• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • True
  • My Life

• Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Special
  • Table
  • Ending

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Night

• My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Body

• I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

  

  Verite
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Pay

• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Films
  • Seeing
  • Carbon

• Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Up
  • Women
  • Together

• I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Learned
  • Used
  • Maniacal

• I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Like
  • Skin
  • Chemicals

• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  

  George Polya
  • Practice
  • Problems
  • Solving

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Color

• I grew up, a kid in New Jersey.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Up

• I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Grateful
  • Working Hard

• I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

  

  Fred Armisen