Michael Winterbottom Quotes

From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.

Michael Winterbottom

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• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Innocent
  • September
  • Islam

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.

  

  Walter Ulbricht

• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Children
  • Society

• The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Travel
  • Horse

• I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Game
  • Perfect

• Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

  

  DJ Khaled

• You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Music
  • Business
  • Simple

• I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music
  • Control

• I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Character
  • Color

• Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • American
  • America

• Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Culture

• Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

  

  Cherie Blair
  • World
  • Important

• However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.

  

  Marvin Harris
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Dream
  • Knows
  • Stars

• Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Spirit
  • Speech
  • Human Creature

• Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Important
  • Musical Instruments
  • Pianoforte

• I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Laughing