Judd Apatow Quotes

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Time
  • Live
  • Character

• L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Nice
  • Hand
  • Learn

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Grow

• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kind

• I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
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  • World

• Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Everything

• I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Time
  • Being
  • Perfectionist

• It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Team

• Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Same

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
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  • Years

• I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Up
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  • Work

• You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.

  

  Clare Short
  • Responsibility
  • Irish

• That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

  

  Paul Walker
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

  

  Judd Apatow
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Direct