Jorma Taccone Quotes
It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.
Quotes to Explore
-
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
-
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
-
Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
-
I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
-
I don't like controversy.
-
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
-
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
-
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
-
Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
-
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
-
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
-
I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
-
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
-
Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
-
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
-
If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
-
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
-
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
-
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
-
To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.
-
Listen - in life, if you can go into work and spend the day with Halle Berry, you're doing alright.
-
It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.
