Quotes About Observation

When you train with good players or watch matches on TV, you want to do what they do.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

It resonates with me the way women tell stories, the way they see things, and the way they attach what they see to certain emotions.

An actor's resource base must be life itself.

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

Honestly, I've never seen anybody run so much as Connor Roberts.

I've always liked shoes. I peep everybody's shoes out to see what they're rocking.

You just have to know that there's people watching you, and you've got to be a positive role model and not put yourself in bad situations.

In a situation like the Rumble, I'm looking around constantly and keeping my back against a rope as much as possible so I can see what's going on.

I never get into local politics and believe in giving a long rope to people.

My routine isn't so much dreaming up the comedy as just seeing what happens to me. I seem to be leading a very funny life.

Sometimes you want to ease into the situation and maybe sit in the back row for a while and allow time to get adjusted and then speak up.

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

To be front and center watching Keri Russell work is amazing.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.