I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas...
BRIE LARSON I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways ...
BRIE LARSON I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, ...
BRIE LARSON I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're...
BRIE LARSON I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.
BRIE LARSON I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the ...
BRIE LARSON The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the sa...
BRIE LARSON Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comforta...
BRIE LARSON For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
BRIE LARSON For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
BRIE LARSON I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you...
BRIE LARSON I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do th...
BRIE LARSON Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the thing...
BRIE LARSON I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been ha...
BRIE LARSON I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started ...
BRIE LARSON Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the...
BRIE LARSON My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commer...
BRIE LARSON I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There&#...
BRIE LARSON I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a w...
BRIE LARSON I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing ...
BRIE LARSON Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time ch...
BRIE LARSON I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expres...
BRIE LARSON I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand oppor...
BRIE LARSON I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills...
BRIE LARSON The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to even...
BRIE LARSON My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, ...
BRIE LARSON It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really s...
BRIE LARSON If I had my way, I would never do a leading role.
BRIE LARSON We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this lif...
BRIE LARSON My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights ...
BRIE LARSON I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.
BRIE LARSON As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.
BRIE LARSON What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The hea...
BRIE LARSON I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don&...
BRIE LARSON I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to a...
BRIE LARSON I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die ...
BRIE LARSON The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.
BRIE LARSON I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over...
BRIE LARSON I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number s...
BRIE LARSON Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'Un...
BRIE LARSON I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got som...
BRIE LARSON A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn&#...
BRIE LARSON In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emoti...
BRIE LARSON I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there...
BRIE LARSON My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my...
BRIE LARSON The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really ...
BRIE LARSON I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little s...
BRIE LARSON 'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and so...
BRIE LARSON In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the mome...
BRIE LARSON We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our...
BRIE LARSON When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want t...
BRIE LARSON It seems like people have to get their thrills somehow.
BRIE LARSON I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constan...
BRIE LARSON I’m very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at t...
BRIE LARSON Any time I was at Trader Joes, and the person bagging my stuff would be like, 'Did I go to colle...
BRIE LARSON I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.
BRIE LARSON When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we wou...
BRIE LARSON I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was th...
BRIE LARSON I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.
BRIE LARSON A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women ca...
ALISON BRIE Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about t...
ALISON BRIE I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and...
ALISON BRIE I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans bac...
ALISON BRIE I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y typ...
ALISON BRIE Our funding is solely from grants and private donations. Local costs include recruitment, training v...
BRIE BICKLEY These incidents are not as rare as one might think.
BRIE BICKLEY I'm a generally optimistic person.
ALISON BRIE I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie jun...
ALISON BRIE My parents are definitely reformed hippies.
ALISON BRIE I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of...
ALISON BRIE We presently have 36 trained volunteers, who donate thousands of hours to be the voices in court for...
BRIE BICKLEY I look really good in a scuba suit.
ALISON BRIE Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
DOUG LARSON The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
DOUG LARSON The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing ...
DOUG LARSON The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a...
GARY LARSON My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and ther...
GARY LARSON I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
GARY LARSON Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
GARY LARSON I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting...
GARY LARSON I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
GARY LARSON On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
GARY LARSON I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a...
GARY LARSON The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
GARY LARSON This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
GARY LARSON The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in...
GARY LARSON I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
GARY LARSON A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categ...
GARY LARSON People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk...
GARY LARSON I don't think we made any mistakes. But from a public relations perspective, it wasn't properly hand...
AL LARSON I hear different things from different schools. It is kind of a mixture, but it is all anecdotal stu...
AL LARSON Communication was tough, but we always sensed there was a feeling of appreciation. There was always ...
AL LARSON We had a generator with us for lights. Even so, half the guys slept outside because it was cooler. T...
AL LARSON The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flush...
ERIK LARSON Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
DOUG LARSON A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign usi...
ERIK LARSON In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political ...
ERIK LARSON Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
ERIK LARSON To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing pole...
DOUG LARSON Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
DOUG LARSON The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
DOUG LARSON Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's o...
JOHNATHAN LARSON Anger always comes from frustrated expectations
ELLIOTT LARSON Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Lar...
DOUG LARSON If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
DOUG LARSON The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
KIRBY LARSON A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
DOUG LARSON It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions...
KIRBY LARSON The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
DOUG LARSON The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
ERIK LARSON We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order...
JOHN LARSON I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a...
ERIK LARSON Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
DOUG LARSON Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of hom...
DOUG LARSON A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
DOUG LARSON Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
DOUG LARSON As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I al...
ERIK LARSON I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and wor...
ERIK LARSON A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
DOUG LARSON If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of ...
DOUG LARSON Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
DOUG LARSON For me, personally, it just made my career more meaningful, ... It never gets old. Any time, anywher...
ANDREW LARSON Some people make the connection, some don't. It's not something I would ever make a big deal about,
ANDREW LARSON Actually, that one is the most vivid, ... I don't know, maybe I blacked out in the national champion...
ANDREW LARSON My first thought was that I had definitely hit it good, ... You're supposed to keep your head down, ...
ANDREW LARSON Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a boo...
ERIK LARSON We look for a 'been there, done that' kind of horse. Old show horses or old roping horses are great ...
ANNE LARSON Her whole ride was about that helmet that day. That day, that helmet was her whole goal.
ANNE LARSON These are functions they don't normally do every day. We're using the horse as a tool to help stretc...
ANNE LARSON Come on, Josie. Let's see you stretch.
ANNE LARSON I've been watching for a long time the difference that horses make in able-bodied people's lives. I'...
ANNE LARSON It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.
ART LARSON We're going to examine this report and carry on a dialogue with this organization. But we feel that ...
ART LARSON On some days, the plant has been operating at a full load. The steam you see is normal.
ART LARSON Our target market for this project is Idaho and the Pacific Northwest.
ART LARSON If and when we are, we intend to immediately seek dismissal of it as being improperly brought before...
ART LARSON Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in...
GARY LARSON Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
DOUG LARSON I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy ne...
GARY LARSON Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
DOUG LARSON I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered tha...
ERIK LARSON They got the defense behind them. They know that.
BREE LARSON We're working really hard on it every day constantly to get better and better.
BREE LARSON Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it t...
BREE LARSON We know that's going to be our key to winning games. Before, earlier in league play, we had trouble ...
BREE LARSON The belief is that after Katrina makes landfall, it will move north to the Tennessee Valley and then...
BOB LARSON I do not want to hang around and root for Dallas to lose.
BOB LARSON Our social life has definitely picked up.
BOB LARSON It's difficult to meet new friends when you get older.
BOB LARSON It's something totally unique that no baseball team has done before.
BOB LARSON Basically, if it goes where it is now, it will have no impact on where you are (in Wisconsin).
BOB LARSON Hopefully we are giving the message to people that this kind of conduct -- parties, serving alcohol ...
BOB LARSON Hopefully we are giving a message to people that this kind of conduct, partys, serving alcohol to mi...
BOB LARSON We're asking them to be ready, and as the situation develops we'll let them know,
BOB LARSON I'm a very small producer today. They've treated me fairly; they haven't given me any special deals.
BOB LARSON Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesman...
ERIK LARSON Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
GARY LARSON For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after e...
DOUG LARSON It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found...
ERIK LARSON We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must h...
JOHN LARSON More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the wors...
DOUG LARSON Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three...
DOUG LARSON Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect
DOUG LARSON The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
KIRBY LARSON It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
KIRBY LARSON Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar f...
KIRBY LARSON What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
DOUG LARSON The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
DOUG LARSON If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
DOUG LARSON Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
DOUG LARSON The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
JONATHAN LARSON There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.
KIRBY LARSON My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind...
KIRBY LARSON The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule...
KIRBY LARSON Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost ...
ERIK LARSON 'The Devil in the White City' - the 'White City' was the nickname for the World'...
ERIK LARSON Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they wer...
DOUG LARSON Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in...
GARY LARSON When I'm in New York, I have, like probably everybody else in Manhattan, a white-noise generator...
ERIK LARSON I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White Ci...
ERIK LARSON It took only 50 years for movies to go from silent to unspeakable.
DOUG LARSON If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all th...
ERIK LARSON The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate
DOUG LARSON We want to make sure the launch and recovery are absolutely flawless.
JERRY LARSON