Michael Ian Black Quotes
Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
-
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
-
I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
-
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
-
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
-
I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
-
A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
-
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
-
There is properly no history; only biography.
-
Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
-
I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
-
You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
-
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
-
Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player
-
Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."
-
Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.
-
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
-
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
-
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
-
Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.
