#odd

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ↗

— Steve Martin

#comedy #comic #course #did #fame

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#birth #crete #death #delight #diversity

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief. ↗

— Julian McMahon

#anything #away #big #dignitaries #father

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#always #believed #brother #career #face

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. ↗

— Kate Millett

#ethics #involuntary #itself #medicine #odds

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#business #competitive #everyone #home #i

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#also #asked #associate #because #difficult

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#i #irresistible #life #makes #me

Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#bad #bad game #course #crazy #drives