Matthew Broderick Quotes
I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'
Quotes to Explore
-
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
-
Never having alone time is real tough on people.
-
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
-
It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
-
The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
-
I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
-
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
-
I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
-
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
-
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
-
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
-
The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
-
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
-
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
-
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
-
As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
-
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
-
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
-
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
-
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
-
I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.
-
I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'
