#our

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#happy #how #humour #i #i think

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#audience #day #different #different kinds #ever

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#brand #brand new #difficult #easy #envelope

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#comedian #i #kind #like #off

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#know #seats #sucks #team #you

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#course #focused #god #had #her

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. ↗

— Moliere

#pray #scholarly #speak #talk #understood

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ↗

— Moliere

#flatter #friends #itself #less #love

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. ↗

— Moliere

#piety #pretenders #well