Jack Black Quotes

It's great to be here at the VMA's! I know this show's been a little sketchy in the past. But there isn't gonna be any problems tonight...is there Eminem?! Not here, someone should've told me.

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• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Women
  • Mother

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Job
  • Celebrity
  • Fame

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Political
  • Finance
  • Bank

• I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Feel
  • Run
  • Quit

• Politics is a good thing!

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Good
  • Politics
  • A Good Thing

• There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Should
  • Place
  • Policy

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Up
  • Work

• Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Different
  • Long
  • Health

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.

  

  Kimberly Williams-Paisley
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Positive

• It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Experience

• It's great to be here at the VMA's! I know this show's been a little sketchy in the past. But there isn't gonna be any problems tonight...is there Eminem?! Not here, someone should've told me.

  

  Jack Black
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