Older People quotes

  • The real minimum wage is zero.

  • [Being a] conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

  • The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . . . the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

  • I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

  • For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

  • No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

  • I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.

  • Did you know Johnny thinks he's Pittacus resurrected?

  • Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

  • My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.