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
  • Disagreeable

• 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

• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Human Nature
  • Adopted
  • Persuasion

• I felt very proud to be chosen. I really did collaborate on the product, colors, the style of the powder cases.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Proud
  • Style
  • Product

• I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Poverty

• People understand that you have to do difficult things to sort out our own public finances.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People

• A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Life
  • Up
  • Band

• 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