Jay Pharoah Quotes

Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.

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• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Band
  • Never
  • Supportive

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Art
  • Best
  • Baby

• When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Want
  • Husband

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Remember

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Easy
  • Gift

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

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

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Road

• I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Moon

• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  

  Sam Houston
  • May
  • Learn
  • Texas

• The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Best
  • Road

• In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

  

  John le Carre
  • People

• I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Movie
  • Feeling
  • Comedy

• We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Long
  • Black
  • Racism

• If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

  

  Linda Fiorentino
  • Done
  • Reading

• I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.

  

  Jon Ossoff
  • Political
  • Beginning

• Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Bad
  • Comedy