Will Ferrell Quotes
When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?Will Ferrell
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
Dak Prescott -
I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
Patrick Fischler -
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
Sally Field -
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
P. J. O'Rourke -
'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
Kaitlyn Dever -
My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
Talulah Riley
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
Frances McDormand -
I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
Sam Shepard -
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
Carla Bley -
You cannot play naive if you're not.
Ida Lupino -
To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
Mahershala Ali -
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.
Jean Smart -
I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
Dave Filoni -
Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.
Maura Tierney -
I've had tragedy in my life, and it doesn't stop comedy, so I think it's important to do both. Particularly in a superhero movie, but in any movie that accesses all people. Nobody wants to be abused for two hours.
Patty Jenkins -
Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
Kristen Wiig -
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
David Steinberg
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Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.
Warryn Campbell -
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
Salman Rushdie -
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
Taylor Swift -
I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
Nathan Fielder -
If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
King James I -
When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
Will Ferrell