Amy Schumer Quotes

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

Amy Schumer

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • History
  • Violence
  • Laugh

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Light
  • Single

• When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Me
  • Die

• The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Art
  • Sadness

• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Cap

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Energy

• Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • She
  • Son
  • Littles

• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Compare

• You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Hope
  • Happen

• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • Funny
  • Road