Brett Gelman Quotes

I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Kid
  • Now

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Love
  • House

• I was a really big kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Big

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Want

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Home
  • Kid
  • Come

• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Parents
  • Loving
  • Were

• I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Sister

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Realize

• I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Kid
  • Big
  • Collector

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

  

  Idris Elba
  • God
  • Long
  • Business

• My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Together
  • Parents
  • Wife

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Culture

• You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Up
  • Long
  • America

• We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

  

  John Pilger
  • Country

• I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Comedian