Richard Ayoade Quotes

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

Richard Ayoade

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

FriendsBecomeAwardsDustGather

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

Joel Grey

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I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

Andrew Dice Clay

ThinkYouStopWatchingSomething

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

Mel Brooks

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Even to be flown out to New York was mind boggling for me, and signing with Columbia was great because they really understood my vision. Of all the labels that I met, they were the ones that really seemed to understand that I was really about the music, the writing, and the lyrics, so it was really fulfilling to sign with them.

Ruth B

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I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

Ruzwana Bashir

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I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Josh Lucas

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Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

Jon Ronson

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Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

Dennis Rodman

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I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Chris Gabrieli

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Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

Christian Louboutin

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