Leslie Jones Quotes
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
-
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
-
I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
-
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
-
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
-
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
-
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
-
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
-
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
-
I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
-
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
-
We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
-
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
-
A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
-
I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
-
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
-
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
-
Art is born of humiliation.
-
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
-
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
-
I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
-
I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.
-
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
-
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
