Jeffrey Combs Quotes

#1. Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that ... I know that.'

Jeffrey Combs

#2. I've never sold my company or products.

Jeffrey Combs

#3. Privacy is not for the passive.

Jeffrey Rosen

#4. I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

Jeffrey Combs

#5. I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Jeffrey Combs

#6. It's who you know and who can help you.

Jeffrey Combs

#7. You know how hot it makes me when you're angry, babe. You kicked his ass. You threw the first punch. I'm hard as a fucking rock right now.

Adriane Leigh

#8. I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Jeffrey Combs

#9. Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.

E. O. Wilson

#10. I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

Jeffrey Combs

#11. Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Jeffrey Combs

#12. People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.

Jessica Zafra

#13. Nothing ruins the flow of conversation more quickly than refusing a compliment you have just received. Never disagree with something nice that is said to you or about you.

Letitia Baldrige

#14. My mum's uncle was a sailor," said Nobby. "But after the big plague he got press-ganged. Bunch of farmers got him drunk, and he woke up next morning tied to a plough.

Terry Pratchett

#15. When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.

John Seabrook

#16. I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

Jeffrey Combs

#17. If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

Jeffrey Combs