Brett Gelman Quotes

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

Brett Gelman

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• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Small
  • Living
  • Iron

• I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Know
  • Me

• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Ideas

• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

  

  Nas
  • Version
  • Owning
  • Creatively

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • City
  • Yourself
  • Vegas

• I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Drama
  • Laugh

• Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Never
  • Human

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Policy
  • Finding

• I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

  

  Major Owens
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Aim

• Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Name
  • Kid
  • Available

• Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

  

  Bill Janklow
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

  

  Steve Kazee
  • Actor
  • Musician
  • Before

• I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Comedy
  • Actor