Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
Jack Whitehall
Related I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin... IAN MCKELLEN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's charact... DAVID MITCHELL I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write... JEFF KINNEY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be s... LORRIE MOORE Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying... GABRIEL IGLESIAS Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others... CECELIA AHERN I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Sc... ANDY PARTRIDGE To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - do... AVRIL LAVIGNE With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just do... SOFIA COPPOLA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil... BEN SCHWARTZ I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art s... DAVE GIBBONS I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... TOM PETTY What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a... ALAN ARKIN If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ... ESPERANZA SPALDING I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's go... SAMANTHA BEE My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' head... EMO PHILIPS 'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to hav... SHANE CARRUTH I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of... ADAM RAPP I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different o... CHRIS O'DONNELL I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped... JOHN DARNIELLE I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love.... JOHN CUSACK I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, ... PHIL MCGRAW When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down i... SERGEY GALITSKY I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doin... MAXINE WATERS I used to be more of a sporty girl. I love outdoor activities. I haven't been doing much since l... LANA PARRILLA I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broke... VAL MCDERMID I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practi... CHARLES SOULE Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I thin... ABBY WAMBACH First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... CECIL DAY-LEWIS Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th... PATRICIA HEATON I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh... RACHEL MCADAMS If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped m... GIL SCOTT-HERON Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly beca... BRITT ROBERTSON You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Mer... OCTAVIA SPENCER I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contr... BOB ELLIOTT The growth, I think, is huge, simply by the fact that pretty well everybody out there is in some way... BRIAN MUIR I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show ... ESTER DEAN It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghu... CATERINA MURINO It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've... BRIAN WILSON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I know all of the calls and stuff, I just am not the one necessarily calling them out. I usually jus... REGGIE WELLS I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out fo... ADRIAN MCKINTY My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or w... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, t... EDDIE VEDDER I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the... CASSANDRA CLARE I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to c... GENE LUEN YANG You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in lov... STEPHEN FRY I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift i... LOUIE ANDERSON I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems ... GABRIEL IGLESIAS My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, w... EMO PHILIPS I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there i... RACHEL MADDOW When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. TOM ROBBINS I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a ... NORM MACDONALD I don't think (the lineup) is as powerful as last year, so (I'm) just going to have to pitch them a ... BRANDON BACKE I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. T... TOMMY LEE I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her ... ROSS MATHEWS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of... BOB NEWHART I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two ... RACHEL BLOOM If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to... EMMITT SMITH When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm play... ISAAC BROCK If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends tre... TRAVIS FIMMEL When I'm out recruiting and out in the field, I have so many players to watch that I don't have time... HILLARY ARTHUR I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM If you sit in a room and think you're the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big p... AKSEL HENNIE I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, an... LAILA ALI I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, ... V. E. SCHWAB I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY Sometimes you get that little brother syndrome. A lot of that is bringing them into the fold. You've... SCOTT LINEHAN I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in ord... HEIDI KLUM My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do ... BEYONCE KNOWLES In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of ma... FRED WILLARD I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about th... TIM VINE I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri... AARON NEVILLE Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and force... STEVEN WRIGHT I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of ... ALEXANDER CHEE I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age. BILL VIOLA I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player... WILL OLDHAM I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe tha... TAMMY FAYE BAKKER We started backed up, and you call plays a little different. You run plays a little different. But t... BOBBY ENGRAM The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and... RANDY PAUSCH I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that pa... CORY DOCTOROW I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set... JIM HARRISON Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendous... MAX LANDIS
More Jack Whitehall
I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old. JACK WHITEHALL Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&... JACK WHITEHALL I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no... JACK WHITEHALL My dad doesn't hug me enough! JACK WHITEHALL I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I ... JACK WHITEHALL My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc... JACK WHITEHALL I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me. JACK WHITEHALL I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm... JACK WHITEHALL I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely. JACK WHITEHALL There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms. JACK WHITEHALL I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up. JACK WHITEHALL Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho... JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha... JACK WHITEHALL Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around. JACK WHITEHALL When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck te... JACK WHITEHALL I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ... JACK WHITEHALL If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing. JACK WHITEHALL I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ... JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad. JACK WHITEHALL When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp. JACK WHITEHALL I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ... JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on. JACK WHITEHALL I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it. JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ... JACK WHITEHALL I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There... JACK WHITEHALL Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world... JACK HERER With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. JACK NICHOLSON The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'... JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils. JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will. JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio... JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea... JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att... JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. JACK ZIPES In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ... JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ... JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their... JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ... JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ... JACK ZIPES Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfu... JACK ZIPES What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th... JACK ZIPES Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it. JACK WILD I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h... JACK WILD I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a... JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ... JACK WILD I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree... JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar... JACK WILD There is no buzz like performing for a live audience. JACK WILD At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t... JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb. JACK WILD I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am. JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off. JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it. JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet. JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs. JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes. JACK WHITTAKER Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ... JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri... JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ... JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e... JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s... JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But... JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th... JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing... JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther... JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li... JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ... JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro... JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&... JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real... JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo... JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous... JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'... JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to. JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea... JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ... JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y... JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins. JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus... JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ... JACK WELCH Change before you have to. JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone. JACK WELCH If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too. JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday. JACK WARNER 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young... JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate... JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak... JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On... JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la... JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ... JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou... JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe... JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co... JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. JACK WAGNER Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life. JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f... JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years... JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young. JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn... JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha... JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s... JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting... JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c... JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew... JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u... JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning... JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at... JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched... JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden... JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better. JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ... JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents. JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it. JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent. JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves. JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u... JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L... JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil... JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio... JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio... JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer... JACK STEINBERGER I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to... JACK STEINBERGER I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. JACK STEINBERGER It's great that people are interested in Mars. JACK SCHMITT But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ... JACK SCHMITT It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany... JACK SCHMITT My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser... JACK SCALIA I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. JACK SCALIA You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles. JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound. JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ... JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. JACK SCALIA I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ... JACK REYNOR I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c... JACK REYNOR With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play... JACK REYNOR As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. JACK REYNOR I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland. JACK REYNOR If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p... JACK REYNOR 'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a subs... JACK REYNOR When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and a... JACK REYNOR In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be ... JACK REYNOR 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really i... JACK REYNOR I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City ... JACK REYNOR The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy ... JACK REYNOR When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that wa... JACK REYNOR I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absol... JACK REYNOR I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in th... JACK REYNOR So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say... JACK REYNOR I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you&... JACK REYNOR My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggre... JACK REYNOR With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That'... JACK REYNOR I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland... JACK REYNOR If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother. JACK REYNOR There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can&... JACK REYNOR My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline. JACK REYNOR The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact th... JACK REED There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. Bu... JACK REED Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get... JACK REED It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted again... JACK REED We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibi... JACK REED The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Securi... JACK REED Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the require... JACK REED We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It... JACK REED To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation. JACK REED I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goa... JACK REED The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads. JACK REED The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the b... JACK REED Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to o... JACK REED