Janeane Garofalo Quotes

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick.

Janeane Garofalo

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• I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Trying
  • She

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Best

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Years

• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • History
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Trying
  • Without
  • Excel

• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Internet
  • Battle

• I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

  

  Young Thug
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Man

• There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Green

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.

  

  Jodie Evans
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Death

• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I don't think Kanye West can support his view that George W. Bush just doesn't care about black people. But it's a demonstrable matter of fact that Bush doesn't care much about black votes. And that, in the end, may amount to the same thing.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • May
  • Black

• I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Game
  • Respect
  • College

• The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

  

  George Osborne
  • Strong
  • Alone
  • Rest

• I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Lost