Tom Shadyac Quotes

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

Tom Shadyac

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• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Idealist

• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • Day
  • Moment

• The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Character
  • Future

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Peace

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Single

• There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Women
  • You
  • Intuition

• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Find

• All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Rest
  • Write
  • Genius

• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Night
  • Romantic

• Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Book
  • History
  • Man

• That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Learned
  • Position
  • Conditions

• There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Work
  • School
  • Party

• Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Situation

• I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Feels
  • Prisoner

• I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Kind