Matt Besser Quotes

We agree that there is a problem in the sketch and improv community where, in general, there should be more interest from a more diverse sampling of our society. That is precisely why we do have diversity scholarships and why we've put together a diversity program to try to figure this problem out.

Matt Besser

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• Fashion is one big family.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Big

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • History
  • Creative
  • Looking

• I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Dance
  • Knowing
  • Taught

• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Brave
  • Cat
  • Pet

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People

• By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.

  

  Erastus Wiman
  • World
  • Army
  • Trade

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Age
  • Violence

• We agree that there is a problem in the sketch and improv community where, in general, there should be more interest from a more diverse sampling of our society. That is precisely why we do have diversity scholarships and why we've put together a diversity program to try to figure this problem out.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Why
  • Together
  • Society