Jonathan Groff Quotes

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

Jonathan Groff

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• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Same

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Think
  • Black

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • American
  • Funny
  • Myself

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • History
  • Science
  • Human

• De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Why
  • Fighting
  • Down

• My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Say
  • Here
  • Gravestone

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  

  Mae West
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fire

• I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • Chicago

• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Life
  • See

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Important
  • Facts

• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Work
  • Stop

• The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

  

  Angela Ruggiero
  • Women
  • Help
  • Sports

• Exercise is just part of my life.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Life
  • Exercise

• Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Evil

• I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Glamour

• 'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

  

  Jonathan Groff