Will Ferrell Quotes

That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.

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• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Think
  • Always
  • I Can

• GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Geography

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rich
  • Wealth
  • Consistency

• It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Heart

• The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Disease
  • Here
  • Syndrome

• Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Die

• It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • World
  • Interesting

• As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Culture

• In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • School
  • History
  • High

• The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Power
  • High
  • Political

• For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Reason
  • Paint
  • No Reason

• I don't think it's possible to ruin a relationship because of anything you do. I think it's about whether or not you're supposed to be together.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Relationship
  • Supposed
  • Ruin

• I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Acting

• Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn’t surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why
  • Peace

• To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Today
  • Christian

• That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Exercise