Michael Showalter Quotes

I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

Michael Showalter

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• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Want
  • Race
  • Pool

• Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Ground

• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Up
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• 'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Done
  • Walking

• 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

• But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Generation
  • News

• I'll tell you right nowAny trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find...

  

  Donovan
  • Book
  • Baby

• It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• Character is what a man is in the dark.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Character
  • Dark

• The status quo is simply unacceptable.

  

  Brad Henry

• If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Player

• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

  

  Enric Sala
  • People
  • Time
  • Inspired

• Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • People
  • Action
  • Golf

• One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• Leaving South Africa was very difficult.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Leaving

• One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Moments

• I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Everything
  • Give

• I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Bridge

• In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

  

  Aden Young
  • Up
  • Character
  • Moral

• The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Important
  • Baby

• I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

  

  Michael Showalter
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Comedy