Mike Birbiglia Quotes

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

Mike Birbiglia

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ConfidenceYouLoseKnowSayNeed

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

John Frankenheimer

LearnYouActorListenFirst

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

John Lydon

WorkGreatSchoolProudShowing Up

It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Robert Kiyosaki

JobFightLosingOpinionSayWant

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is.

John Schneider

BeautifulCollegeMaskPersonYoung

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

Stanley Spencer

FeetDressedHeadOtherSleptEach

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

Sonia Rykiel

WomenWomanDressBlueMeStand

I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.

Tom Petty

ThinkRock And RollYouRockBecome

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

Robert Fripp

LifeMy LifeDoingInterviewsMuch

I want to do everything and be greedy in that way - film, TV, radio, theatre. If it's juicy work, I want it!

Tom Glynn-Carney

WorkTheatreWantWayGreedyRadio

Working on 'Downton Abbey' is amazing, but there's an ensemble cast of between 18 and 21 actors. With 'Love Life,' there are two couples and a few other key characters. As a smaller unit, you've got to take more responsibility - at the same time, you can have more ownership of the direction it's going in.

Rob James-Collier

LifeLoveTimeResponsibilityKey

I'm not a gym rat. I've got a gym membership, but my schedule is so crazy I just can't keep it regular.

Lisa Murkowski

CrazyGymScheduleRatMembership

It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.

Brett Young

Growing UpGrowingMissedNeverUp

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