Lake Bell Quotes

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Desert

• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • God
  • Day

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Want
  • Example
  • Tax

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Money
  • Book
  • House

• Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Experience

• He Hitler is a very great man. 'Fuhrer' is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Great

• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

  

  Modest Mussorgsky
  • Fine
  • Rough
  • Giants

• I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Respect