Quotes About Observation

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

I don't say too much. Quavo and Offset - I don't talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.

If I go out and do a set, there's a good chance that I'll watch another comedian. I'll think - not necessarily their words, but oftentimes the message that's behind the words - the sort of belief that their unspokenly advocating, well, sometimes that's offensive.

It actually takes me a few years before I can watch my own shows, and even then, it's still hard. I'll be like, 'Oh my god, that actor was so good with me in that scene, why didn't I see that and interact with him better?'

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.

I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.

There are people who have been in this game much longer than myself. And one of the things that I've learned by way of just watching is to stay flexible because you never know what may pop up.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the 'keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.