Top 77 Friedlander Quotes
#1. Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.
Katrina Bowden
#2. I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.
Mary Ellen Mark
#3. Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.
Andy Kindler
#4. A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.
William Eggleston
#5. Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.
Judah Friedlander
#6. Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.
Judah Friedlander
#7. I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.
Judah Friedlander
#8. A mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
Lee Friedlander
#9. I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
Judah Friedlander
#10. You can literally walk into my apartment and sit on a hat; you can step on a hat; you can probably open up the refrigerator and find a hat tucked under some rotten food. I have a lot of hats.
Judah Friedlander
#11. I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.
Judah Friedlander
#12. [Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.
Lee Friedlander
#13. The key to practicing levitation is simple. Practice jumping up - but not jumping down.
Judah Friedlander
#14. I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.
Judah Friedlander
#16. Art being a thing of the mind, it follows that any scientific study of art will be psychology. It may be other things as well, but psychology it will always be.
Max J. Friedlander
#18. In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.
Judah Friedlander
#19. Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.
Judah Friedlander
#21. I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for '30 Rock'. Some people think we're old friends from 'Second City' days. I had always been a fan of Tina's. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.
Judah Friedlander
#22. Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.
Judah Friedlander
#23. Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
Saul Friedlander
#24. I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.
Judah Friedlander
#27. I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.
Judah Friedlander
#28. I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.
Judah Friedlander
#29. My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
Judah Friedlander
#30. Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.
Lee Friedlander
#31. I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.
Judah Friedlander
#32. I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.
Judah Friedlander
#33. I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.
Judah Friedlander
#35. I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
Judah Friedlander
#37. I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.
Judah Friedlander
#38. I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
Lee Friedlander
#39. Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.
Judah Friedlander
#40. There's a lot of thought that goes into every single thing I wear.
Judah Friedlander
#41. I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some of these girls, they want to go out with you so they can blog about you.
Judah Friedlander
#42. No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.
Judah Friedlander
#44. The American psychologists classified persons on the basis of IQ tests, labeling those judged feebleminded in descending order as morons, imbeciles, or idiots
Henry Friedlander
#46. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.
Lee Friedlander
#47. At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.
Lee Friedlander
#48. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
Lee Friedlander
#49. You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.
Judah Friedlander
#51. I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.
Judah Friedlander
#52. I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.
Judah Friedlander
#54. I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.
Judah Friedlander
#55. One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.
Saul Friedlander
#56. It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.'
Judah Friedlander
#57. As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies.
Judah Friedlander
#58. If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
Judah Friedlander
#59. My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.
Judah Friedlander
#60. With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.
Lee Friedlander
#62. As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities.
Joan Friedlander
#63. Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.
Lee Friedlander
#64. When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.
Judah Friedlander
#65. Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.
Shems Friedlander
#66. If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.
Lee Friedlander
#67. Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.
Judah Friedlander
#68. I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.
Judah Friedlander
#69. There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.
Saul Friedlander
#70. I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.
Judah Friedlander
#72. Perhaps the essence of tradition, it's ultimate justification, is to comfort, to bring a small measure of dreams, a brief instance of illusion, to a moment when every real avenue of escape is cut off, when there is no longer any recourse.
Saul Friedlander
#73. I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience.
Judah Friedlander
#74. Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.
Judah Friedlander
#76. Photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
Lee Friedlander
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