Up To You Quotes
My favorite kinds of comedies are ones that hopefully make you laugh a lot, but ultimately make you care about something in the end, even if it's just a little bit.
If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.
You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.
As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.
For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane which was very exciting.
When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.
My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.
Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.
Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.
Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.
The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.
If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"
Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.
What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.
It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States.
It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to come through. It's really 'Thank you!'
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'
It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.
Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.
You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.
You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.
It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.
I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.
If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.
Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.
My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.
I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.
I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
