Bill Burr Quotes

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

Bill Burr

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Luxury

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Knowledge
  • Now
  • Become

• I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Proud

• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Character
  • Change
  • Name

• Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • True

• In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death
  • Dying

• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Society
  • Law
  • Moral

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Done
  • Wisdom

• Most days, I'll wear lipstick. It's always been a thing for me - my mom has a lot of them, and I'd always use hers. Eventually, I started buying my own because my mom has lighter hair and lighter skin, so we don't always look good in the same colors.

  

  Maude Apatow
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Hair

• Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Yoga

• I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Fool

• Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

  

  Craig Armstrong

• A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Believe
  • Plant

• While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Book

• When the Guest is being searched for,

  

  Kabir

• 'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Trying
  • Psychology

• When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Wonder

• If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Trying
  • Scene
  • Lines