Zach Woods Quotes
I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
Quotes to Explore
-
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
-
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
-
In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
-
If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
-
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
-
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
-
I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
-
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
-
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
-
I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
-
How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
-
I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
-
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
-
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
-
I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
-
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
-
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
-
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
-
I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
-
I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
