John Krasinski Quotes
The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. There are realistic elements that people obviously enjoy, but they don't necessarily want to relive the trials and tribulations of their average work day.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not Cinderella.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
-
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
-
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
-
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
-
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
-
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
-
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
-
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
-
The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
-
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
-
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
-
Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
-
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
-
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
-
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
-
I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
-
Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.
-
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
-
I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.
-
The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. There are realistic elements that people obviously enjoy, but they don't necessarily want to relive the trials and tribulations of their average work day.
