John Oliver Quotes
The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
-
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
-
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
-
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-
I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
-
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
-
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
-
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
-
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
-
Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
-
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
-
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
-
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
-
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
-
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
-
I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
-
I'd never been published when I was young.
-
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
-
We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
-
You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.
-
Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.
-
I worked my way through law school.
-
I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
-
The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
