"I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product."

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Source : "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

Rob Corddry

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Acting Quotes

“People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?”
“Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness...”
“Iâ€™m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought â€˜Iâ€™m going to go in and get him some wedges.â€™ I was actually doing a good deed. Itâ€™s so me to end up the other way around where Iâ€™ve done damage.”
“ItÂ is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.”
“And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2010). “Heaven's Prisoners”, p.156, Hachette UK
“You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.”
“He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.”
“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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