Top 87 Glazer Quotes
#1. I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.
Rachel Bloom
#2. Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.
Mickey Rourke
#3. We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach.
Ilana Glazer
#4. All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
Ilana Glazer
#5. I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.
Jonathan Glazer
#6. I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.
Jonathan Glazer
#7. I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.
Ilana Glazer
#8. I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.
Jonathan Glazer
#9. I'm surprised when people who don't usually smoke weed are into edibles. I can't believe that.
Ilana Glazer
#10. I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
Ilana Glazer
#11. That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.
Ilana Glazer
#12. I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.
Jonathan Glazer
#13. I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
Tom Glazer
#14. I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.
Jonathan Glazer
#15. I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
Tom Glazer
#16. I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.
Ilana Glazer
#17. The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me.
Ilana Glazer
#18. I'm not going to watch two TV shows with vaginas in them unless somebody tells me why they're different!
Ilana Glazer
#19. Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer
#20. I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.
Tom Glazer
#21. When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.
Tom Glazer
#22. I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.
Jonathan Glazer
#23. Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.
Ilana Glazer
#24. There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I'm not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.
Ilana Glazer
#25. I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.
Jonathan Glazer
#26. I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.
Ilana Glazer
#27. What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.
Ilana Glazer
#28. You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.
Jonathan Glazer
#29. You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.
Ilana Glazer
#30. I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.
Tom Glazer
#32. That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to.
Ilana Glazer
#34. I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.
Tom Glazer
#35. The thing about the performance part ... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer
#36. Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.
Tom Glazer
#37. I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.
Tom Glazer
#38. In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
Ilana Glazer
#39. I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.
Ilana Glazer
#40. It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.
Ilana Glazer
#41. I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
Ilana Glazer
#42. I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.
Tom Glazer
#43. When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.
Tom Glazer
#44. 'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.
Ilana Glazer
#46. When we were on tour, a lot of people just dropped joints on the merch table for us. That was great. Every time, I was like, "Thank you so much."
Ilana Glazer
#48. I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.
Mitch Glazer
#49. I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.
Tom Glazer
#50. In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.
Mitch Glazer
#51. Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.
Nathan Glazer
#52. In every character that you play ... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
Ilana Glazer
#53. [Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.
Ilana Glazer
#54. I didn't start smoking weed till my junior year. I had a boyfriend who smoked a lot, and I was like, "Oh, I guess I'm moving on to this phase of life." I didn't fight it at all.
Ilana Glazer
#55. When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.
Jonathan Glazer
#56. Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
Tom Glazer
#57. When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
Tom Glazer
#58. Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
Tom Glazer
#59. My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
Tom Glazer
#60. With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
Tom Glazer
#61. You got to miss class to do it. Like, many periods of school. And then they took us to an elementary or middle school, and we told kids that they could be cool when they grew up even if they didn't do drugs.
Ilana Glazer
#62. For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
Tom Glazer
#63. As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.
Tom Glazer
#64. There was this one lady in Colorado who made us something ceramic, where it could have been either a ring holder or a bowl cleaner. She was just like, "Here you go." And we were both like, "Oh my god! Thank yoooou!"
Ilana Glazer
#65. I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.
Ilana Glazer
#66. A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.
Tom Glazer
#67. If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.
Ilana Glazer
#68. I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.
Ilana Glazer
#69. I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.
Ilana Glazer
#70. There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.
Ilana Glazer
#71. Biking is a good alternative. Use the city as your gym.
Ilana Glazer
#72. When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
Tom Glazer
#73. When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer
#74. We're big Hillary [Clinton] supporters. For a lot of reasons.
Ilana Glazer
#75. As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
Mitch Glazer
#76. I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.
Tom Glazer
#77. They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
Tom Glazer
#78. Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts ... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.
Tom Glazer
#79. I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.
Ilana Glazer
#80. It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'
Ilana Glazer
#81. Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.
Tom Glazer
#82. I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
#83. It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.
Ilana Glazer
#84. "Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.
Ilana Glazer
#85. When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
Tom Glazer
#86. I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
Tom Glazer
#87. I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.
Jonathan Glazer
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