Friday Quotes

• I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Love
  • Job

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Done
  • Past
  • Effort

• Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Time
  • Night
  • Friday

• Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, 'Come on, think about it.' He'd choose more involving films like 'Pulp Fiction,' and at the end of the night, we'd agree that they were great.

  

  Christian Cooke
  • Great
  • Night
  • Dad

• When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

  

  John Barrowman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Night

• Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

  

  Marion Ross
  • Up
  • Live
  • Happy

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Optimism

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Lights

• A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Eating
  • Coincidence

• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Hard Work

• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Fun
  • Night
  • Friday

• If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Night
  • Friday

• I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Work
  • Breakfast
  • Saturday

• 'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Book
  • Night
  • Party

• And oh you got so much going for you, going right.But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night.I wish you'd study Spanish,I wish you'd take a typing class.I wish you wouldn't worry, let it be.I'd say have a little faith and you'll see.If I could write a letter to me.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Night
  • Past
  • Faith

• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Night
  • Change

• TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.

  

  Emily Rios
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Friday

• I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

  

  Iain Dowie
  • Good
  • Night
  • Food

• Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Friday

• My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.

  

  Adam Green
  • May
  • American
  • Memories

• The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Kids

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