Alan King Quotes

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

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• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Student
  • Bloom

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Day

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Always

• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Evil

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'

  

  Paris Jackson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Research

• In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Find

• When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Ride

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • House
  • Mom
  • Never

• There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • Nothing
  • More

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Respect

• Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

  

  Austin Peck
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Drag

• Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Writing
  • Forever

• My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

  

  Dominic Sherwood
  • Good

• Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Political
  • Giving

• And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

  

  Alan King
  • Fun