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

• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Life Is A

• 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
  • Very
  • Artists
  • 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've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Rock

• Looking back now, it's easy to see that I had no models for the socially accepted conventional female role, which was certainly a blessing.

  

  Jane Roberts

• Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

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

  

  Jimmy Fallon