Marc Maron Quotes

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

Marc Maron

• Business
• Soul
• Devil
• Ego

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Black
  • Know
  • White

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Sex
  • Write
  • Read

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Easy

• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Men
  • Job

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • God
  • Die

• I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

  

  Stromae
  • Trying
  • Normal
  • Stay

• Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables.

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Positive
  • Blue

• Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Business
  • California

• You're not a man, you're a machine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Machine

• Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

  

  Marc Maron
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Devil