Jim Gaffigan Quotes

There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.

Jim Gaffigan

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Hard
  • Weg

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

  

  K. Flay
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Dad

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• I like walking in Golden Gate Park.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Walking
  • Golden
  • Gate

• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Years
  • Cutting
  • Traditional

• I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Work
  • Great
  • Passion

• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Learnt

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Woman
  • Happiness

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
  • Improving

• With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Hands
  • Green
  • Generation

• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Book
  • Author
  • Choose

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • You
  • Film
  • Chance

• But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Help
  • Honor
  • Diamonds

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Job
  • Tomorrow
  • Performance

• From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

  

  Matt Letscher

• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Feels