Joel McHale Quotes

E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

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• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Me

• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • She
  • Famous
  • Popular

• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Microphone

• You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Man

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Team

• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Me
  • Body
  • Relaxation

• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Pictures

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Popular
  • Writer

• You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Training

• I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Soul

• By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • World
  • Business
  • History

• I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

  

  Derek Luke
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

  

  Joel McHale
  • Fun
  • Sports