Andy Kindler Quotes

I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'

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• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Bad
  • Place
  • Insecurity

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• You have good days and bad days.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Person

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • True
  • Hope

• I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'

  

  Tamala Jones
  • True
  • Girl
  • Favorite

• It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • True
  • Movie
  • Hand

• Dylan is free now to work on his own terms. It would be foolish to predict what he will do next. But hopefully he will remain a mediator, using the language of pop to transcend it. If the gap between past and present continues to widen, such mediation may be crucial. In a communications crisis, the true prophets are the translators.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

  

  James Spader
  • Career
  • Walking
  • Lazy

• The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do with great artists; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Star
  • Youth
  • Fountain

• Manuscripts don't burn.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Burn
  • Manuscripts

• I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Bad
  • True
  • Joy