Jasper Fforde Quotes

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Jasper Fforde

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• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Monster

• I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Fun
  • Feel
  • Acting

• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Strong

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Audience
  • Emotions

• Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Political

• Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Working Hard

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• My dad was so much fun growing up.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Growing

• Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Fun
  • Hiking

• I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Cute

• I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Create

• When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Attention

• And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

  

  Thomas Harris
  • May
  • Dinner
  • Orchestra

• 'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Value

• As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, 'No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.' No person, no exceptions.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Law

• Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fun
  • Fiction
  • Scoundrels