Jerry Van Dyke Quotes

I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.

Jerry Van Dyke

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• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Heart
  • You
  • Decision

• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Computers

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Gift

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Roots

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Face
  • Really
  • Coin

• If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Love

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

  

  Charles Vest
  • Science

• It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.

  

  Andy Daly
  • Feeling
  • Space

• I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • Work

• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Up
  • Time
  • Comedy

• Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

  

  Brad Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.

  

  Jerry Van Dyke
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Red