Adam McKay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
-
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
-
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
-
I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
-
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
-
Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
-
The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
-
I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
-
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.
-
If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
-
My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
-
You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
-
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
-
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
-
'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
-
I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
-
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
-
It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.
-
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
-
To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
-
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
-
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
