Ali Farahnakian Quotes

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

Ali Farahnakian

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• If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Place
  • More

• Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Good
  • House
  • Song

• It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Important
  • City
  • Special

• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Parents
  • Powerful
  • Influence

• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • Up
  • Meet

• I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Way
  • Fans

• When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Growing
  • Sister
  • Growing Up

• Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Thought
  • Enemy
  • Lies

• The truth is, there are many types of businesses that require thousands of dollars to be invested during the startup period. However, there are also many different types of business models that you can run from the comfort of your own home without having to reach too deep into your wallet.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Different
  • Home
  • Business

• And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Think
  • Said
  • Stand

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• Man, we were so opposite. One guy sang high, the other low. One guy tall, one short. We were like a quartet without the two guys in the middle. If you were putting two guys together to make hit records, you wouldn't have picked Bobby and me.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Together
  • High
  • Guy

• I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

  

  Blake Morrison
  • Property
  • Editing
  • Surgeons

• Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

  

  Ali Farahnakian
  • Ideas
  • Practice
  • Improvisation