Michael Ian Black Quotes

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

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• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Club

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Learning
  • Organization

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Me
  • Everything
  • Made

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Free
  • Fact
  • Momentum

• Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the opportunity came for me, I would already know what to expect. I know what comes along with it. The best thing I can do is take it all in and go with the flow.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • True

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • People

• I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.

  

  Louise Wilson

• I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Comfortable
  • Relaxed

• It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Country
  • Business
  • Performance

• All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • She
  • Bad
  • Words

• To me, nothing is more fun than being in that ring. That ring is just my heart; it's my passion.

  

  Nikki Bella
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Ring

• My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Trying
  • Goal
  • Actors