“People who are just in a restaurant that you would never know are international arms dealers is kind of interesting, they're at the table next to you and you have no idea, you never know what everyone's up to.”
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“Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.”
“When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'”
“There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their "A" game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart.”
“In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.”
“I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.”
“Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.”
“It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.”
“People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.”
“When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.”
“I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.”
“I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.”
“A lot of people don't even know there was a Journey before Steve Perry.”
“I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.”
“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”
“There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.”
“Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.”
“I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome and he coined the term "spaceship earth" and that's pretty much the extent of what people who even have heard of him know. And I'm struck by how many people have not heard of him at all.”
“When people ask me about being Swedish, or if there is something I feel connected to, neoclassicism is the thing I bring up.”
“To be honest, my social life is my work. It's quite boring to say, but I meet a lot of people, and we have people from different creative disciplines. I enjoy life right now, and I enjoy work.”