#stan

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#die #first #sign #understanding #wish

You know, people really don't understand what actors do. ↗

— Sally Field

#people #really #understand #you

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play. ↗

— Al Kaline

#bit #gets #go #got #intensity

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#big-bang #darwinism #double-standards #id #intelligent-design

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#art #because #catharsis #even #get

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#comes #every #fit #haven #i

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#career #done #haven #i #i think

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#gift #hopefully #i #laugh #leading

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#effect #fast #get #god #i

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#being #constantly #could #expectations #fictions