Andy Kaufman Quotes

Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being a purist and going all the way with the role. If I'm going to be a villainous wrestler, I believe in going all the way with it and not breaking character and not giving away to the audience that I'm playing a role. I believe in playing it straight to the hilt.

Andy Kaufman

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• My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Me
  • Coach

• I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Believe
  • Want
  • You

• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Good
  • Company

• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Believe
  • America

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Talented
  • Too

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Feel Good

• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• Now these battles too are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of the fresh ones. We--by this I mean those youth of this land who are capable of enthusiasm for an ideal--will not shrink from them. We stand in the memory of the dead who are holy to us, and we believe ourselves entrusted with the true and spiritual welfare of our people. We stand for what will be and for what has been. Though force without and barbarity within conglomerate in sombre clouds, yet so long as the blade of a sword will strike a spark in the night may it be said: Germany lives and Germany shall never go under!

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Believe
  • Memory
  • Enthusiasm

• You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Night
  • New York
  • Airplane

• We just thought people in Yorkshire hated everyone else, we didn’t realise they hated each other so much.

  

  David Cameron
  • People

• Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being a purist and going all the way with the role. If I'm going to be a villainous wrestler, I believe in going all the way with it and not breaking character and not giving away to the audience that I'm playing a role. I believe in playing it straight to the hilt.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Character