Jemaine Clement Quotes

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Possibilities

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Movies

• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Record
  • Speaks
  • Itself

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Give

• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • World
  • Home
  • Christmas

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
  • Upset
  • Facebook

• I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Like
  • Color
  • Weakness

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Movies

• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • She

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Depression

• The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.

  

  Elon Musk
  • World

• I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

  

  Jemaine Clement
  • She
  • Grandma