Louie Anderson Quotes

I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.

Louie Anderson

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• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
  • Psychology

• If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • City
  • Paris
  • Fireworks

• I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Perspective

• I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Working
  • Breathe

• There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Up
  • You
  • Jump

• I think sometimes you are born with a song.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Think
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Feeling
  • Year
  • Cards

• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Work
  • Think
  • Problems

• It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Chicago

• Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment

• Stilled legendary depth:It was as deep as England. It heldPike too immense to stir, so immense and oldThat past nightfall I dared not cast.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Past
  • Deep

• Is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Power
  • Free
  • Desire

• Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• There's an old African proverb that says 'If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

  

  Al Gore
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Front Page

• I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up

• For which he wex a litel red for shame, Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen, That to beholde it was a noble game, How sobreliche he caste doun his yen. Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen, And let so softe it in her herte sinke That to herself she seyde, 'Who yaf me drinke?'

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • She
  • Game
  • Red

• One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Success

• I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.

  

  Louie Anderson