Val Guest Quotes
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
-
I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
-
A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
-
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
-
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
-
I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
-
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
-
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
-
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
-
I am supposed to set an example to young players.
-
Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
-
Power is the by-product of understanding.
-
There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
-
'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
-
Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
-
I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
-
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
-
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
-
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
-
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
-
I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
-
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
-
I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
-
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
