Steven Yeun Quotes

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.

Steven Yeun

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• I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Party
  • Doubt
  • New Years

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Want
  • Building

• Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• I know why the UFC runs the business the way they do. I know why Conor McGregor makes a base pay of $3 million. But I think I justify my pay with my skill set, and I've always been willing to promote my brand.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Why
  • Business

• The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Good

• All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Control

• To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Guy
  • Team

• My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Band
  • Road
  • Brother

• Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

  

  Colin Mochrie

• When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

  

  Luis Walter Alvarez

• There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

  

  Kevin Bacon

• The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Amazing
  • Habit

• Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red Lanterns' is more of a cosmic saga that has some jokes every once in a while.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Up
  • Book
  • Comedy

• If I have to made a Daredevil movie, I will take a completely different direction. My vision of the character is much more a drama. There will be a 1st part in the child hood of Matt Murdock and the universe of Hell kitchen. Something in the universe of the first Rocky Balboa.

  

  Xavier Gens
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

  

  Kelly McCreary
  • People
  • Daily
  • Compassion

• I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.

  

  Steven Yeun
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Stretch