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Jay Roach Quotes

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

Jay Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: 1957

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Opportunity Parents Think Comedy Way

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Humor Nothing Little Like Levity

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

Jeff Tweedy

Music Hope Always Level Ears Even

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

Jeff Kinney

Funny Great Time Hero Together Long

Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today... and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career.

Sonny Mehta

Life Today Time World Portrait True

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

Roger Goodell

Facts Always Something Clear Gets

I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

Mindy Kaling

Love Good Beginning I Am End Wish

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

Coretta Scott King

Peace War You More Bring Going

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Clay Shirky

Myself Commitment Career Go Never

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Antonin Artaud

Work Time Me Present Feel Order

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

Asif Kapadia

Man Walking Someone You Watch Who

When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.

Pierce Brosnan

Myself America Way Irish Shut Up Up

I'm not just a designer; I'm not just a retailer. I'm not just a street style person, whatever that is. I can instead do a little bit of everything.

Nick Wooster

Style I Can Person Street Everything