Chilly Gonzales (Jason Charles Beck) Quotes

A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.

Chilly Gonzales

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Celebrity
  • Prove
  • My Own

• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Jazz

• The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Know
  • Me
  • Inspire

• All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Night
  • Judge
  • Garden

• We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Know
  • Interested
  • Cause

• I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Lady

• As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Curiosity
  • Subjects
  • Surprised

• He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth

• Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • May
  • Deep

• Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

  

  Anna Seward
  • Good

• I have, like, two best friends, one that I grew up with who's not an actor, and one that is an actor that lives near me in Wales, and they're my friends. I don't have any other friends, really, in the industry. I have acquaintances and people that I will go out for coffee with.

  

  Craig Roberts
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • True
  • Write
  • Promise

• Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

  

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • School
  • Parents

• In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Citizens
  • States
  • Relation

• I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

  

  Chris LeDoux
  • Passion

• Today it's not culture; it's box office.

  

  Alex North
  • Today
  • Culture

• When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Dance

• A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.

  

  Chilly Gonzales
  • Today
  • Comedian
  • Misunderstood