Fred Armisen Quotes

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

Fred Armisen

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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Black
  • Funny

• If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Want
  • Giving
  • You

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Look
  • Successful

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• You learn from it, then you have to come back to work. I've been in this predicament many times.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Comeback

• Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Great
  • Movie

• I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Work
  • Important

• I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Work
  • Song
  • Edgy

• I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Yeah, that was a good song. My theme song. But really I thought it was everybody’s theme song.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Song
  • Found

• My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Song