Russell Peters Quotes

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

Russell Peters

• Mistake
• Laughing
• Staring
• Cockiness

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• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.

  

  Zendaya
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Feel

• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sun

• The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Home
  • Night
  • Health

• Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Great
  • Live

• What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Today

• One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Time
  • Age
  • College

• I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

  

  Lee Pace
  • Surfing

• I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

  

  Jeff Greene

• If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Country
  • Control
  • Gun

• People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poetry
  • Role
  • Killed

• I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.

  

  Steve Gleason
  • Believe
  • Happiness
  • Choice

• The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • King
  • Songs
  • Sadness

• I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Mistake
  • Laughing
  • Staring