Michael Cerveris Quotes

For me, awards are not what I really care about - the work is what I really care about. And, I am especially proud that I was acknowledged for doing work that I was so proud of and that meant a lot to me.

Michael Cerveris

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Guy
  • You
  • Know

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Age
  • Small
  • College

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Eye
  • Less
  • Meets

• I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Writing

• Something must be done,about vengeance, a badge and a gun.So rip the mic rip the state rip the system,I was born to rage against them.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Done
  • Gun
  • Rip

• I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • May
  • Hope

• The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Health
  • Competition
  • Driving

• There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different
  • Focus
  • Deep

• I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Liar

• I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

  

  James St. James
  • Remember
  • Party

• If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Live
  • Focus

• Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

  

  Marc Davis
  • Up
  • Help
  • Career

• I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

  

  Alexis Arquette
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

  

  Jerry McNerney
  • Good
  • Math

• Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.

  

  David Cassidy

• I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

  

  B. B. King
  • World
  • Help
  • Me

• For me, awards are not what I really care about - the work is what I really care about. And, I am especially proud that I was acknowledged for doing work that I was so proud of and that meant a lot to me.

  

  Michael Cerveris
  • Proud
  • Awards