Jake Johnson Quotes

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

Jake Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 20, 1978

Topics

WorkBusinessJobManGameChoices

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Jeffrey Zeldman

StrengthWorldUniqueFirstPosition

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

John Cho

LifeSonCultureParentsThought

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John le Carre

RelationshipTruthPerformanceBetter

I don't think a baby is something that you should do because other people are doing it.

Andy Samberg

PeopleBabyThinkDoingYouBecause

New York is tough on lonely people.

Michael Bergin

New YorkPeopleToughLonelyNew

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

Troy Carter

BusinessResilienceRejectionHustle

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Mary Oliver

GreatSchoolBetterFeelSometimes

Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made to feel quite the other, and I thought that was impossible in a city like New York but I myself was witness to that.

Mira Nair

CommunityChildrenMyselfNew York

To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

CM Punk

Black And WhiteTimeSimpleMeThink

I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show', why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then?

Brian Posehn

WorkComedyYouGoWantSketch

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Mark Edwards

MeAttentionNothingMorePoint

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Mark Zandi

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