Chris Elliott Quotes

#1. Probably the most fun I've ever had, actually, acting. Because it was the perfect extension of the stuff that I'd started to do on Late Night With David Letterman, and when I look back on all my work, it was probably the best possible incarnation of Chris Elliott, of me.

Chris Elliott

#2. We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

Chris Elliott

#4. I'm not a competitive person.

Chris Elliott

#5. I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Edward Albee

#6. And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#7. Nothing is confused except the mind.

Rene Magritte

#8. I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Montesquieu

#9. I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

Chris Elliott

#10. Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Chris Elliott

#11. There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#12. That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Chris Elliott

#13. Besides Slayer, which is a full-time job, I raise animals. I have a ranch in Texas. My wife takes care of the animals when I'm on tour. When I get home, I become a ranch hand.

Tom Araya

#14. The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism, and the uncontrollable violence--all the things our grandparents called 'the good old days'...

Chris Elliott

#15. But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Chris Elliott

#16. I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Chris Elliott

#17. It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, and body.

Manly P. Hall

#18. Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

Seth MacFarlane