Hector Elizondo Quotes

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Hector Elizondo

• Comedy
• Human Condition

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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Best
  • Religion
  • Toleration

• I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Drama
  • Laugh

• The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Done
  • Period
  • Research

• Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth

• Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Job

• You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
  • Country

• With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

  

  Brooke Nevin
  • True
  • Fun
  • Funny

• Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • Great
  • May
  • Today

• I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to fall back on. I didn't know what the future held, but once I got my law degree, I started to feel like, 'OK, I'm a serious person.'

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Mother
  • Future
  • Law

• I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Up
  • Time
  • Girl

• I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Comedy
  • Human Condition