Brian Posehn Quotes

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'

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• I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fighting
  • Mental Illness

• My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

  

  K. Flay
  • Weird
  • Perspective
  • My Own

• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Should

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Road
  • Yourself
  • Take Care

• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Amazing
  • Years
  • Over

• Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I think I put a lot of special attention towards creating interesting textures and unique sounds. Music essentially boils down to two main elements: rhythm and melody. I feel tones and textures often get overlooked, so I like to take my time finding the right sounds.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Artists

• In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Small
  • Fish
  • Pond

• You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Think
  • Know
  • Player

• To understand a man is really to be that man.

  

  Otto Weininger

• The deeps are cold:In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Cold

• Allerdings ist das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgethan zu werden...

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Believe
  • Immigration

• One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Dead
  • Blade
  • Snickersnack

• If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

  

  Norman Lloyd
  • Audience
  • Exciting
  • Compete

• My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

  

  Chris Pine
  • Work
  • Father
  • Retirement

• I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Judgment
  • Conscience

• I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'

  

  Brian Posehn