Jimmy Fallon Quotes

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

Jimmy Fallon

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• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Over

• I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

  

  Larry David
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Take

• I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Past
  • Trouble
  • Emotions

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Most
  • Admit

• Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Love
  • Know
  • Italian

• No damn man kills me and lives.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Damn

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Awards
  • Retired
  • Academy

• You write about what you know.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • Write

• I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Popular

• I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Way
  • Law

• Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Artists
  • Very
  • Musically

• The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Care

• I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Advice
  • Ask

• If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Giving
  • Doing

• I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Work
  • Support
  • Myself

• My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • School
  • True
  • High

• While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Story
  • Debate
  • Traffic

• The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who's so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket - to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can't; it's not my style.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Nature
  • Cat

• I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

  

  Jimmy Fallon