Bill Burr Quotes

I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.

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• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Fun
  • Like

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Day
  • Door

• I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Find

• Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

  

  Ram Charan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
  • Down
  • Dumb

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Anything
  • Paper
  • Expensive

• One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.

  

  Bernice King
  • America

• Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • Trying
  • House

• I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Guy

• Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Beautiful

• Aimer, c'est agir

  

  Victor Hugo

• It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

  

  Benjamin E. Mays

• I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Silly