Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
-
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
-
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
-
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
-
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
-
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
-
Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
-
I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
-
I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
-
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
-
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
-
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
-
I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
-
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
-
I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
-
Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.
-
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
-
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.
-
Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
-
When you like something, you find time to do it.
