Joel McHale Quotes

Acting is what I'd always wanted to do; hosting 'The Soup' was more because of Greg Kinnear.

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Difficult

• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
  • Soul

• Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Like
  • Easy
  • Coaching

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• We should all love animals.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Love
  • Should
  • Animals

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
  • Service

• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Travel

• Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Values
  • Meeting

• He was a revealing symbol. He called himself passive-aggressive. There was self-pity, whining. There was a diminishment, a diminution. He was sitting there in his sweater, hunched over his guitar, looking like a little lost boy. Compare that with the great figures of my generation: Jimi Hendrix. Pete Townshend. Keith Richards.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Boy

• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Art

• Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Taken

• The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Up

• Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Jesus
  • Christianity
  • Colossal

• When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

  

  Brandon T. Jackson
  • People
  • Blessed

• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  

  Len Wein
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Art

• Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Prisoner

• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Pain
  • Tales
  • Moods

• Acting is what I'd always wanted to do; hosting 'The Soup' was more because of Greg Kinnear.

  

  Joel McHale