Elizabeth McCracken
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CHEVY CHASE With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it mad... CHRIS PRATT I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really int... SAOIRSE RONAN TREVOR NOAH MATT GROENING AERIN LAUDER HELEN MIRREN When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then yo... CAMPBELL SCOTT NORA EPHRON As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of ... TERESA PALMER MICHELLE OBAMA ELISABETH SHUE DR. SEUSS I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a... LEE DANIELS NICKI MINAJ DYLAN MORAN Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry thems... ANDRE BENJAMIN JOHNNY DEPP You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h... GARY SHERMAN SETH MEYERS BILLY GARDELL ALISON SWEENEY But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it ... NIGELLA LAWSON Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your frie... EDGAR RAMIREZ MICHELLE PFEIFFER MINDY KALING The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a... JOHN C. MCGINLEY GOTYE Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's th... PAUL FEIG MAYA ANGELOU There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a ma... HAZEL SCOTT You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army ta... JERRY JONES Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. ... ANNE F. BEILER TAYLOR SWIFT When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an ... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. KANDYSE MCCLURE CASEY WILSON I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can... LUKE WILSON It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions t... PAUL GREENGRASS Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha... NORM MACDONALD Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you di... NATASHA LEGGERO MAYA ANGELOU LONI LOVE JOHN WATERS CAITLYN JENNER NEIL GAIMAN MO FARAH ANNIE LENNOX DEAN KAMEN BLAKE LIVELY When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able t... DAVID SELBY DAVID TENNANT BILL HICKS TABATHA COFFEY JERRY SEINFELD Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to... JOHN LOGAN It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com... WANDA SYKES NENEH CHERRY I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make y... HARI KONDABOLU When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN CARL HIAASEN JOHN ROBERTS AMY POEHLER JUSTIN CHATWIN JOHN BOLTON WALTER DEAN MYERS ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I wan... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written... LAURA WADE Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an inti... ERIC MABIUS FAITH HILL ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, a... MING-NA WEN DAVID DUCHOVNY It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem... BIANCA KAJLICH JOHNNY BENCH People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty o... MICHAEL PATRICK KING JILLIAN HERVEY The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Go... ZACK SNYDER MARK TWAIN Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot ... PAULA RADCLIFFE JAKE ARRIETA I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play show... PATRICK STUMP RON HOWARD Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuanc... WHIMSICAL ENLIGHTENMENT GISELE BUNDCHEN There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's ... FLEUR EAST When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that the... STEVE COOGAN WILBUR SMITH TIM BERNERS-LEE It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and impr... ABEL FERRARA MARY STEENBURGEN HENRY ROLLINS TAYLOR SWIFT That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can u... JUDY PARFITT CHARLAINE HARRIS TOMMY CHONG
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What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh no... 
I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't for... 
Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beg... 
If you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that'... 
It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... 
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banan... 
It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they ra... 
When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the... 
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end... 
When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but i... 
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the m... 
It's such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little gir... 
My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve... 
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Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoyi... 
Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions... 
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have ... 
I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconsc... 
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There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at ... 
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel,... 
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and... 
It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But ... 
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabu... 
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometim... 
I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's ... 
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Becaus... 
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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in... 
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. 
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 
I'm a puzzle doer. 
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films. 
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? 
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. 
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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. 
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. 
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. 
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The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating 
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