Rhys Darby Quotes

When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

Rhys Darby

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• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Dizzy

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Meaningful

• Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Different
  • Way

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking

• English never met a word it didn't like.

  

  Anu Garg
  • English

• It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Free
  • Universe

• I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Good

• Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

  

  Peter Bergen

• I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

  

  Laurie Metcalf

• When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Up

• I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Good
  • Anxiety

• I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Work

• Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Work
  • Job
  • College

• I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Help

• So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Work
  • Experience
  • College

• I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Life
  • School
  • Experience

• If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.

  

  Bryant Gumbel
  • People

• The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Live
  • Prayers

• The Rogue Cyborg is doing serious Rogue Cyborg stuff. He’s crouched before a data terminal as though it were an ancient altar, and from the look on his face what he’s praying for is desperate and bloody revenge.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Serious
  • Revenge

• When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

  

  Rhys Darby