Jon Cryer Quotes

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

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• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Goal

• Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Adventure
  • Comfort

• The world is always terrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Always
  • Terrible

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Good
  • Age
  • Father

• The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • You
  • Irish

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Job
  • Hope

• Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Decisions
  • Now
  • Fast

• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hip Hop

• I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Dance

• One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Experience
  • Fitness

• In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

  

  Alan Ruck

• Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.

  

  David Hewson
  • Light
  • Sun

• From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Time
  • Different

• The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

  

  Alvin R. Dyer
  • America
  • Religious
  • Destiny

• You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

  

  James Boswell
  • Time

• That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. It's what makes life fun. We don't need it to be delicious or great or all these things if we're just to survive. But it's one of those things that makes life fun, livable. And the more I submerge myself in it, the more fun I seem to have.

  

  Rene Redzepi
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Moment

• The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Freedom
  • Friend

• Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

  

  Jon Cryer