A. J. Jacobs Quotes

Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?

A. J. Jacobs

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• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Guy
  • Listening
  • Skateboarder

• I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Really

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Always

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Guy

• You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • You
  • Never

• Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • King

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Guy
  • Today

• I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • Villain

• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • End

• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'dFor one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  

  John Dryden
  • Lost
  • Design
  • Devil

• Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Brain

• He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • World
  • True
  • Serious

• Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?

  

  A. J. Jacobs
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