Norm MacDonald Quotes

I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.

Norm MacDonald

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• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  

  Ina Garten
  • You
  • Everything
  • Nobody

• I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • May

• Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Help
  • Future
  • Small

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Writer

• Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Better

• Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Sexy
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I buy way too many books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Way
  • Books
  • Buy

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • True
  • Leadership

• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • May
  • Earth
  • Cool

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Nice

• I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Believe

• The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.

  

  Cilla Black
  • World
  • Great
  • Business

• There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Moments
  • Better
  • Blessed

• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Selfish

• I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Actors
  • Blessed
  • Horseshit