Erik Griffin Quotes

We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

Erik Griffin

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• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Words

• My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Family
  • Joke
  • Recognized

• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Die
  • Win
  • Jealousy

• One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

  

  David F. Houston

• Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • People
  • Time

• Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mind
  • Search
  • Say

• The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

  

  James Gray
  • Good
  • Family
  • Support

• It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

  

  Kenneth More
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• You need raw talent to be successful.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell

• I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Great
  • Education
  • Sex

• Fashion is constantly evolving throughout the seasons and within various cultural changes, but the one thing that has stayed constant is how I always want my style to be an authentic, intrinsic part of myself.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

  

  Ellie Kendrick
  • Character
  • Game
  • Amazing

• If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

  

  Joan Jett

• I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Truth
  • Deception

• I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Stupid
  • Stills
  • Skateboarding

• We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Comedy
  • Female
  • Voices