Ben Fong-Torres Quotes

Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

Ben Fong-Torres

• Thinking
• Comedy
• Laughter
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• Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Age
  • Audience
  • Group

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • People
  • Dress
  • Observation

• Vida's definitely a beautiful and peaceful girl.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Peaceful

• You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Friends
  • Dance
  • Learn

• Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Aging

• Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Die
  • Model

• I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

  

  Diplo
  • Crazy
  • Dark

• A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

  

  Arthur Keith

• My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • World
  • Music

• 'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.

  

  Bill Macy

• I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

  

  James Gray
  • Good
  • Family
  • Support

• 'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Science

• I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Soul

• In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Alone

• I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that the egg of my story is ready to hatch, then I can write it in three months. Then I know the landscape and the people well and from the inside, but I don't necessarily know where the story is going to take us.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Blessed

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  

  Ben Fong-Torres
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Laughter