Matt Besser Quotes

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

Matt Besser

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• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Best
  • Ahead

• When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Day
  • Moving
  • Yourself

• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Company

• When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • See
  • Islamic

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Power
  • Political

• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Black
  • Color
  • End

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Influence
  • Impossible
  • View

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

  

  Barton Booth
  • True
  • Sun
  • Needle

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Long
  • Real
  • Home

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Myself

• I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Men
  • Women
  • City

• City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  

  Edward Hoagland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Lose

• I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I would like to ask it to other people: Why is it that most celebrities pay with cash as opposed to credit card? Is it so that they are not recognized right away and want to be more unassuming?

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Why
  • Law

• When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

  

  Matt Besser
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Chicago