Andy Kaufman Quotes

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Andy Kaufman

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• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Myself

• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Today
  • Ideas
  • Economy

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Name

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

  

  E. L. James
  • Time
  • Children
  • Job

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• There's no sex in Middle Earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Sex
  • Middle

• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Stupid
  • Celebrity
  • Become

• They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.

• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • War
  • Team
  • Football

• In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • World
  • Successful
  • Trusted

• The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Believe
  • Suicide
  • Doctrine

• While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Kids