Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ai Weiwei

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable.

Ai Weiwei

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Bob Woodward

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

Bob Woodward

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

Bob Muglia

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Bob Monkhouse

I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

Bob Odenkirk

I don't think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.

Bob Odenkirk

I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

Bob Odenkirk

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

Bob Odenkirk

I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after people go, ‘OK, I’ve had enough of that improvisation, I’ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.’ Don’t ever look at what’s happening now; look at what’s coming next.

Bob Newhart

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

Bob Newhart

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

Bob Newhart

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Bob Newhart

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

Bob Newhart

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

Bo Bice

Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.

Blythe Danner

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Bo Derek

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

Bo Burnham

I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, 'I think you try too hard in your comedy.' And that's what I worry about.

Bo Burnham

I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

Bo Burnham

I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

Bo Burnham

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

Bo Burnham

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.

Bo Burnham

At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.

Bo Burnham

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

Bo Burnham

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor, [...] I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.

Bo Burnham

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

Bo Burnham

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

Bo Burnham

If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.

Bo Burnham

People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Bo Burnham

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.

Billy Eckstine

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

Billy Idol

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.