Ken Jennings Quotes
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
Quotes to Explore
-
New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
-
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
-
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
-
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
-
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
-
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
-
Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
-
The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
-
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
-
Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
-
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
-
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
-
The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
-
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
-
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
-
I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
-
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
-
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
-
When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
-
I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.
-
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
-
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
-
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
