American Quotes

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get t

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

There's no drama like wrestling.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

I never told a joke in my life.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

Inspiration comes from all different places.