Brian Baumgartner Quotes
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
Quotes to Explore
-
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
-
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
-
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
-
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
-
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
-
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
-
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
-
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
-
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
-
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
-
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
-
I'm really just a normal person.
-
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
-
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
-
Events are not a matter of chance.
-
'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
-
It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.
-
My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
-
Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.
-
My life's a wreck, and I love it.
-
The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.
-
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
