Garry Marshall Quotes

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• I love to push myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Push

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Time
  • You
  • Know

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Why
  • May

• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Looks
  • Look
  • Distance

• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Theory
  • Piano
  • Started

• May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Work
  • Country
  • May

• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • Human
  • Conscious

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Good
  • Challenges

• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Home
  • Want
  • Stills

• My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Fighter
  • Competitor

• I don't want to get fined or anything, but it's a call you don't see much in college basketball.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • College
  • Basketball
  • Call

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Desert