Dan Scanlon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really like to explain my songs.
-
I like to prove people wrong.
-
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
-
I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
-
Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
-
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
-
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
-
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
-
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
-
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
-
I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
-
Love, and do what you like.
-
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
-
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
-
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
-
I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
-
I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
-
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
-
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
-
I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
-
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
-
I tend to like dry humor.
