Quotes by B. J. Novak - Page 1

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Perfectionism
Plus
Regret
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Believer
Directors
Trusting
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I do not have very much office experience.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Office
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Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Battered
Battered Women
Sound
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Travel
Daydreaming
Easy
Impossible
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If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive.
B. J. Novak / Actor
If I Could
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Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Ends
Long
Remember
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There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Comedy
Glad
Watches
Good Know Make
Watched
Comedies
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Hopefully
Persons
Type
Comics
Gravitate
Onstage
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If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Care
Let It Go
Who Cares
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I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Giving
Important
Thinking
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Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Expected
Perfect
Type
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If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
B. J. Novak / Actor
Basketball
People
Reality
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Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Lines
Love You
Thanks
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I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Beloved
Associated
Massively
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Balance
Comic
Comedies
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Air
Office
Real
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I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I would get a compliment if I wore a blue shirt.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Blue
Blue Eyes
Compliment
Fashion
Talking
Before
Eyes
Grade
Learned
Second
Shirt
Wore
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Aspire
Laughing
People
Something New
Writing
Work People New
Perform
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It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
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Brave
Party
Years
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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Creative
Way
World
World Way More
Creative Outlet
Outlet
Struck
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I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?
B. J. Novak / Actor
Blue
Default
Jeans
Pants
Stiff
Wore
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I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?'
B. J. Novak / Actor
Awake
Bedroom
Lying
Mum
Night
Remember
Said
Stupid
Thinking
Asked
Coming
Ever
Her
Invent
She
Telling
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Opportunity
Design
Decision
Different Styles
Obsessed
People
Visual
Writer
Director
Cue
Different People
Production
Piece
Styles
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If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Point Of View
Ulysses
Love Work Respect
Counted
For Example
Minority
Seduced
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I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a profession. My dad saved me all that time by making me think, 'Oh, anyone can be a writer. It's like being a firefighter or a lawyer.'
B. J. Novak / Actor
Firefighter
Profession
Saved
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I don't actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I'm in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues. It's like, lawyers aren't like, 'You're incredible! You're a professional arguer in front of the judge! You're great at paperwork!' No, you just get credit for one job.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Gold
Paperwork
Statues
Titles
Lawyers
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I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!
B. J. Novak / Actor
Audience
Brilliant
Voice
Worst
Best Always Me
Best Me Voice
Best Me Feel
Argue
Figure
Head
Telling
Wins
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It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers me more in a movie than an actor playing a writer, and you just know he's not a writer. Writers recognize other writers. Ethan Hawke is too hot to be a writer.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Feels
Writer
Bothers
Disproportionate
Fair
Number
Main
Recognize
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I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Busy
Daytona
Symbolic
Big Way
Gesture
Upgrade
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There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Differences
Feelings
Thinking
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