Michael Stuhlbarg Quotes
I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
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I tend to like dry humor.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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If it gets laughs, it's funny.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
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I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.
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Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.
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I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.