I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Maynard James Keenan

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.
Herschel Walker

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
Isaac Mizrahi

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
Steven Soderbergh

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
Joshua Homme

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Tom Clancy

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
Usher Raymond

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
Doug Coupland

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.
Merrill Markoe

If you begin a conversation about potato salad and find yourself being called a castrating bitch, don't waste your time going around and around about this with your girlfriends, trying to figure out what happened.
Merrill Markoe

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Franklin P. Jones

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.
Susan Sarandon

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as "cold." There is only less heat.
Alton Brown

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
Edouard Manet

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
Antonio Banderas

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
Bob Woodward

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
Josh Lucas

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
Rory Bremner