Dan Harmon Quotes

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Dan Harmon

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Idea
  • Starting
  • Studying

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Stage

• I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Tell
  • Early
  • Storytelling

• I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Focused
  • Since
  • Mechanics

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Day

• I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Find
  • Working

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Real
  • Easy

• Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Important
  • Realize
  • Islam

• We laid the foundation before we went to a major label.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Foundation
  • Before
  • Laid

• I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Bored

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

  

  Mare Winningham
  • School
  • High

• If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Money
  • High
  • You