Josh Gad Quotes

My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

Josh Gad

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• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Better

• I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Real
  • Comedy

• That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Education

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Energy
  • Dad

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Culture

• I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • History
  • Think
  • Film

• I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
  • Friend
  • Wife

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Day
  • Film
  • Working

• I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Signature

• We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

  

  Anodea Judith
  • Moving
  • Greed
  • Command

• I often tell people that I truly want the horse to be my feet and legs. I want to be an extension of the horse and him to be an extension of me. That's what I'm always working toward when I'm on a horse.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • Horse
  • Extension

• You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that "We cannot forgive, it's very difficult." But it's a myth whether you forgive or don't forgive. What do you do? You don't do anything. But when you don't forgive, then you are playing into wrong hands. That means you are torturing yourself, while those who have troubled you are quite happy.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Firsts
  • Bigs

• There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Kids
  • Comedy
  • Mean