Dara O Briain Quotes

My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.

Dara O Briain

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• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Man
  • Wife

• I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
  • Friend
  • Wife

• My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Wife
  • Wants
  • Delicious

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Funny

• On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Day
  • Wife
  • Wedding

• Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Widowed wife and wedded maid.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wife

• I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • Up
  • Live
  • Comedy

• 'I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong.' Are there six more magical words you can say to your wife?

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Words
  • Wife
  • Sorry

• Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • True
  • Wife
  • Understanding

• I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

  

  Andrew Buchan
  • People
  • School
  • Comedy

• Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Night

• The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

  

  James Gray
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Wife
  • Understanding
  • Daughter

• With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

  

  Diora Baird
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Opinion

• I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Song
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Nature
  • Comedy
  • Rest

• I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.

  

  Joe Piscopo
  • Live
  • Comedy

• We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Great
  • Music

• Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

  

  Marian Burros
  • May
  • Drinking
  • Americans

• I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Writing
  • Live

• My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.

  

  Dara O Briain
  • Comedy
  • Wife
  • Frustrated