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Retta Quotes

All the people I looked up to - Roseanne, Tim Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld - were stand-up comedians who used humor to get TV shows. I'm on TV now, and I'm working towards getting my own show.

Retta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american

Topics

Humor People Now My Own Up Own

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

Joel Edgerton

Work Good Internet You Say Line

I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.

Andris Nelsons

Thankful Things Going Complete Well

My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

Robert Mapplethorpe

You Know Lifestyle Need Where Only

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

Fun Have Fun Comedy You Difficult

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

Home Culture Reading Self Escape

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

John Ruskin

Art True Visionary False Call Us

I see everything like a movie. I laugh and cry, I smell, touch, see and describe my own experience. I don't care if this sounds strange; I am not the creator - I am only the channel. The story is given to me.

Amish Tripathi

Experience I Am Me Story Care Laugh

Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.

Amitabh Bachchan

Character Believe You Measure Skirt

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

Tony Evans

Time Prayer Me Same Preach Pastor

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

Robert De Niro

Problem Rejection You Go Ball Eight

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

Michael Moore

People Control Down Wall Street

Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.

Jonathan Turley

Truth People Election Chicago Never