Jeff Garlin Quotes

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

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• I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Happy
  • Girl

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Want
  • Software
  • Box

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Respect

• Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Criticism
  • Will
  • Merit

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Voice
  • Started
  • Positivity

• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fan
  • Huge

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Reading

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Know
  • White
  • Blues

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

  

  Charlie Wilson
  • Remember
  • Door
  • Racism

• When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Work
  • Home
  • Study

• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • May

• I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

  

  Jeff Garlin
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