Jon Favreau Quotes

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

Jon Favreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1966

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I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

Jeremy Irons

CharacterMeDoingKnowCharmSort

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Menachem Begin

YouCountryLandOwnYourForeign

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Hill

PowerSocietyProblemWayRealOut

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

SuccessStupidOilAlwaysPropaganda

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Spencer Abraham

ResponsibilityEnergyPlayReliable

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.

Sid Waddell

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I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Robert Carlyle

WorkLoveChangeCharacterYearYou

I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time.

Lisa Hanawalt

TimeMeKnowInsideAlwaysHow

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

Colleen Atwood

FashionDesignBackEarlyClients

I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

Brett Eldredge

WaitingThinkYouOutSomewhere

I just play my football, and if I can help people, then I help people.

Ashley Cole

FootballPeopleHelpI CanPlay

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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