Larry Wilmore Quotes

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Myself

• It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Back

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Comedy

• I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Support
  • Tour

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• Down time is not the name of the game.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Game
  • Name

• Comedy requires a lot of energy.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Energy
  • Comedy
  • Lot

• I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Comedy
  • Less
  • Well Known

• We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• I think of myself as still being about five.

  

  Demi Moore

• I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Great
  • House
  • Star

• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Die
  • Forever

• I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Comedy