Brett Gelman Quotes

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.

Brett Gelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1976

Topics

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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

Roy Lichtenstein

ThinkKnowBeingSomethingLike

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Russell Baker

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As a rule, Michael Balcon was at great pains to ensure Ealing remained very British. There was no point our trying to be MGM, and we didn't see a lot of American stars.

Douglas Slocombe

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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Donald E. Westlake

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First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.

Debbie Macomber

MyselfBeginningPeopleFeelCareer

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

David Stras

JusticeDecisionControlPolitical

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.

Brandon Victor Dixon

CreativeIntroductionMoreThrough

The tendency among Democrats, especially after a devastating loss, is to come up with either a new individual to lead us, a new strategy, a new slogan.

Brian Schatz

StrategyLossNewLeadIndividual

I didn't think; I experimented.

Anthony Burgess

ExperienceThink

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

Anne Donovan

ThinkKnowPlayersBackgroundExtent

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

PnB Rock

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To do anything with someone like Bono or someone would be like, you know, a milestone, I think, as a musician.

Priyanka Chopra

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