- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good Thing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.
- Heart
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When you run for the U.S. Senate, it's a full game on. This is not for the faint of heart.
- Preparation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you do a whole script, you hand it off, and it gets rewritten by a bunch of people, and people don't really get that much of a sense of how funny you can be.
- Partner
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.
- Business
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.
- Joke
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.
- Name
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters; everyone just put on a name tag and started improvising.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
'Reno 911: Miami!' is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews - good and mostly bad - nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that's more awkward.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.
- Crazy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020