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 President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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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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I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.
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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
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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.
