Paul Feig Quotes

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Paul Feig

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• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Teacher
  • Dog
  • Theory

• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • War
  • Talk
  • Negotiation

• We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Power

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Magic

• I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  

  Lara St. John
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Experience
  • Question
  • Day

• I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Star
  • Film
  • Inspiration

• Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Career
  • Me

• Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • World
  • Live
  • Dark

• The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Mother
  • Father
  • English

• You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.

  

  Bill Macy

• Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music

• Always, when things don't go the way that everyone expects, people - the supporters as well - always look for someone to blame. In some cases, they blame the players.

  

  Diego Costa
  • People

• The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.

  

  Don Rose
  • People
  • Fire

• One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Career
  • Proud

• There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.

  

  Lene Hau
  • Work
  • Mind
  • History

• One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman
  • Why
  • Obstacles

• You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.

  

  Mark Strong

• I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Decision

• I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

  

  Paul Feig
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Enjoy