Quotes about t
thinking ability
I think everyone has the ability to be loved. Ricky Gervais
thinking people fundamentals
I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.
thinking people laughing
It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.
thinking people empathy
The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.
thinking people waiting
For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I think I want to aim at doing something that a lot of people won't like. I'm just worried that it looks like I've compared my work with Rembrandt. "Gervais says he's better than Rembrandt!".
thinking laughing office
People think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of "The Office," we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it.
thinking issues office
That's what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It's the same in "The Office" when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is `I better show this guy I'm not a racist.' So what does he do? Only talks about black issues.
thank-god thanks thanks-god
When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.
thinking play advice
I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.
thinking buying pants
I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.
thinking wire damage
When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.
taken simple facts
The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given,
thinking office special
I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.
thinking directors actors
I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.
thinking creative soul
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.
thinking years people
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
texture moral reason
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.
thinking opposites fundamentals
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. Susan Cain
teacher men doctors
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman? Susan B. Anthony
teaching government people
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
thinking philosopher accepting
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
turn
No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts. Tiffany Thornton
trained
I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.
telling
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
trying
As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
technology
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology. Ted Chiang
time
I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck. Tom Guiry
time
'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!
trying
I actually was consciously trying to emulate bands like Bruce Springsteen, and just trying to emulate what they do structurally. Tom Curren
took
I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild. Trinny Woodall
turns
I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me. Tim Tebow
trying
I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man. Tone Loc
trying
We're just trying to play good. There's nothing to it. Larry Mize