Maya Rudolph Quotes

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

Maya Rudolph

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Listening

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • Party
  • Speak

• Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Long
  • Money
  • Short

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • You
  • Mad

• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Know
  • Play

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Doing
  • Gun
  • Loved

• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Director

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• Putin is like Al Capone.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Like
  • Putin
  • Al Capone

• I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Work
  • Comedy

• There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

  

  David Millar
  • Nature

• Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Happy

• At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

  

  Erika Christensen
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Parent

• I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • Comedy