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?'

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Partner
  • Lazy
  • Argument

• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• 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!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• 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.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Past
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Real
  • Character
  • Acting

• 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!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Sense
  • Humour

• At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Late
  • Chief
  • Relative

• I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Help
  • Free
  • Diet

• 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.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hand

• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Chinese
  • Alive
  • Tibetans

• I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

  

  Dudley Moore

• Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Education
  • Brain
  • Greatness

• Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.

  

  Ann Rutherford
  • People
  • Why
  • River

• People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• 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?'

  

  Matthew Broderick
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