Andrea Martin Quotes

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

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• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Forever

• It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Voice
  • Own

• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Like
  • Person
  • Smart

• The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • War
  • Talk
  • Negotiation

• But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sometimes

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Want
  • Irony
  • Mustache

• Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

  

  Kage Baker
  • History
  • Man
  • Space

• When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Body
  • Down

• While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • America
  • Man
  • Gay

• You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.

  

  Dana Perino
  • America
  • You
  • Wall

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
  • Athlete

• Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Popular

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Doing

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Queen
  • Heads
  • Latifah

• I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Peg Bundy

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Experience

• I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Kids

• Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup of tea with 400 lumps of sugar in it. There's something very strange about Simon Cowell's lips, isn't there?

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Family
  • Rest
  • Tea

• I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Teacher
  • Awakener

• Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

  

  Andrea Martin