Jason Segel Quotes

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

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• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Mother
  • Thought
  • New

• After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Life
  • Education
  • My Life

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Look

• There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Young
  • Italian

• I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Question
  • Feel

• I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Too Much

• Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Growth
  • Struggle
  • Baby

• There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • She
  • Knowledge

• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Life
  • Time

• 我们的原则是党指挥枪，而决不容许枪指挥党。

  

  Mao Zedong

• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Live
  • True

• Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Past

• The master was never impressed by diplomas or degrees. He scrutinized the person, not the certificate. He was once heard to say, 'When you have ears to hear a bird in song, you don't need to look at its credentials.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Song
  • Bird

• My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that makes you suddenly stop and wonder: 'What is this? There is something groovy, something else going on here.' Also, I want to give you what is obvious and what is not obvious to the eye.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Stop
  • Wonder

• Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.

  

  Brice Marden
  • United States
  • Businesses
  • Symphony Orchestra

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Book
  • Nerd

• I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Laugh

• For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

  

  Jason Segel