Brett Gelman Quotes

A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

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• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
  • Known
  • Locks

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Together
  • Change
  • Action

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Driving

• I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Think

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • World
  • War
  • Respect

• Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Democracy

• Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• 'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Action
  • Suffering

• The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Remember

• One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Work
  • Live
  • Action

• I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Road

• I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Action

• I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • School
  • High
  • College

• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Connections

• Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

  

  Bruce Vilanch

• Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Action
  • Works
  • Reaction