Kenan Thompson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
-
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
-
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
-
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
-
I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
-
The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
-
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
-
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
-
Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
-
I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
-
Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
-
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
-
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
-
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
-
Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
-
There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
-
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
-
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
-
Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.
-
I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
-
Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.
-
I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
