Chris Parnell Quotes

#1. Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

Adam McKay

#2. After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

Chris Parnell

#3. The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.

John Le Carre

#4. I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

Deny King

#5. It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.

Chris Parnell

#6. My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. 'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.

Chris Parnell

#8. The best advice I never got ... I don't know if it would have done any good, but to be more confident with girls in school. I actually had a couple of girlfriends, but I was still pretty timid and it was hard to ask girls out.

Chris Parnell

#9. You never won't know what you can't achieve until you don't achieve it.

Chris Parnell

#10. I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore

Robert Penn Warren

#11. We fight ceaselessly to live or we live joyfully to fight.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

Ibn Majah

#13. I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Chris Parnell

#14. Overcoming challenges makes life a worthwhile adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was, like, 11 and I wrote programs and BASIC on that, like I think a lot of people did, but I have no idea how to program in the current languages at all.

Chris Parnell

#16. Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#17. If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.

Robert Barry

#18. Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

#19. Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher ... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

Chris Parnell

#20. To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

Chris Parnell