Brian Posehn Quotes

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

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• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Movie
  • You
  • Fantasy

• Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Work
  • Think
  • Truck

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Better
  • Television
  • Try

• I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Movie
  • Years
  • First

• Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Why
  • Fly
  • Gymnastics

• I hate birthdays.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hate
  • Birthdays

• I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Amazing

• As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Identity

• I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.

  

  Genelia D'Souza
  • Small

• I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Why
  • Broken
  • Grief

• If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Advisers

• Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

  

  Brian Posehn