Ben Younger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

  • The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  • I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

  • Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

  • The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

  • It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

  • It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

  • I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.