Kelly McCreary Quotes

I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.

Kelly McCreary

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• There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Risk
  • Unknown

• I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Never
  • Gay
  • Being

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Person

• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rules
  • Follow
  • Nobody

• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Grow

• I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Good
  • Home
  • Help

• I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Small
  • Travel
  • Summer

• You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Understand
  • Interest
  • Public

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Mean
  • Galaxy
  • Phones

• Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Future
  • Success
  • Past

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Personality
  • Famous
  • Partner

• I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fear

• I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Trying

• When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Balance

• When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.

  

  Kelly McCreary
  • Trying
  • Progress