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Martin Lawrence Quotes

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

Martin Lawrence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: April 16, 1965

Topics

Good Character Step Doing You Want

There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.

Jewel

Myself Curious Me Fame Important

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

John Darnielle

People Strange Places Follow Things

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

McKayla Maroney

Women Words People Me Confused Know

I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.

Meghan Daum

Work Direction Sometimes Hard Radio

Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.

Matt Lauer

Truth People Me Regret Feel Enough

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

Anand Mahindra

Life Business Sustainability Way

Never let your dreams go away.

Mike Piazza

Dreams Your Dreams Go Never Go Away

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Jasper Johns

Work Feelings Want Exposure

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

Christoph Waltz

Appreciation Feel Wave Easy Way

Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

Colm Wilkinson

Music Time Together Musicians Enjoy

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

Arthur Hertzberg

Struggle Understand Argue Talmud

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Peter Mullan

Worth Useless Being Minute Come Any