Kenan Thompson Quotes
I've always just tried to continue to be a working actor and let the work speak for itself as opposed to promoting myself as someone who needs to be in everybody's living room.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
-
I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
-
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
-
One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
-
I need to meet people to be able to write.
-
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
-
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
-
The emotions of the game do not change.
-
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
-
I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
-
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
-
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-
I made nothing happen very slowly.
-
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
-
If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
-
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
-
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
-
I've always just tried to continue to be a working actor and let the work speak for itself as opposed to promoting myself as someone who needs to be in everybody's living room.
