Eugene Mirman Quotes

Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

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• It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Change
  • Hair
  • Color

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• '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

• When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Money
  • Football
  • Fame

• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

  Hafez
  • Fortune
  • Wheel
  • Twists

• 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

• PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• 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.

• Banks can send big corporate payments through existing channels or send a small payment through Ripple. They don't have to rip out existing infrastructure; they can use Ripple to make the transactions more profitable or more efficient.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Small
  • Rip

• One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Time
  • Dark

• For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Different
  • Training

• I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.

  

  Kygo
  • Great
  • Family
  • Together

• Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Time
  • Money
  • Taken

• If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Death
  • Free

• Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Why

• When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • True
  • Wonder

• When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Up
  • Theatre

• I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

  

  David Geffen
  • Truth

• I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

  

  Candida Hofer
  • Artist
  • Interest
  • Statements

• I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • World
  • High

• I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I love the spontaneity. They'll play a song and it will go for like 25 minutes. That kind of worship, and how they lead people into the presence of God, is just awesome.

  

  Reuben Morgan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Presence

• Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Comedy
  • Fake
  • Laboratory