Molly Shannon Quotes

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

Molly Shannon

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• When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Music
  • Thought

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Think
  • Relationships
  • Doors

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Passion
  • For Her

• I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

• I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Character
  • Think
  • Acting

• A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Man
  • Hear

• As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Always
  • Trends
  • Just Because

• As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Why
  • Think
  • Stop

• It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

  

  John Gunther
  • Driving

• A powerful hand lens Eschenback Leutchlupe with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Vision

• I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

  

  Adele
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• We pay based upon on ratings. As the audience grows, we pay more per ad.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Audience
  • Pay
  • Grows

• Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Audience
  • Fans
  • Generation

• It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Together
  • Interesting
  • Laughing

• You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Audience
  • Laughing