Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
-
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
-
I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
-
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
-
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
-
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
-
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
-
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
-
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
-
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
-
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
-
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
-
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
-
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
-
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
-
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
-
I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.
-
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.
-
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
-
Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
-
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
-
People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
