Top 100 Kaufman Quotes
#1. I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.
Clive Owen
#2. What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.
Kevin McDonald
#4. When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
Roy Lichtenstein
#5. I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
Steve Martin
#6. Andy Kaufman's mom wanted a girl, his father wanted a boy, and they were both satisfied!
Jerry Lawler
#7. His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the '80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.
Lou Lumenick
#8. I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
David Cross
#9. I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.
Eddie Murphy
#10. Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.
Jim Carrey
#11. This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality.
Bruce Karatz
#12. I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.
David Caruso
#13. After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried.
Ronda Rousey
#14. She has a habit of downplaying trouble. I don't suppose she told you about Tony Vance or Sheldon Kaufman? They were a couple of sorcerers in her last crew." Angus shook his head. "Not a word. What happened to 'em?" "I did.
Craig Schaefer
#15. I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
Lee Iacocca
#16. I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love
#17. Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.'
She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?'
'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby ...
Bret Easton Ellis
#18. Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
Jerry Lawler
#19. It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
Sam Rockwell
#20. Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.
Stephen R. Covey
#21. Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic.
Clive Barker
#22. Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
Milos Forman
#23. I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
Joe Piscopo
#24. I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's supposed to be happening right then and that sort of unsafe feeling, as long as you're not punishing them.
Mike O'Brien
#25. The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.
Elijah Wood
#26. They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art. Van Gogh and Picasso had troubled souls, but poor Steve Kaufman has been shot once, stabbed 3 times - all by women. That is a lot of drama for great art.
Robin Leach
#27. I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.
Stephen Gaghan
#28. [Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.
James Wolcott
#29. I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
John Travolta
#30. Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity "Love Ride" by donating a painting to this cause.
Jay Leno
#31. Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.
Clive Barker
#32. I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.
Vincent Schiavelli
#33. The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks.
Rex Reed
#34. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
Josh Kaufman
#36. Lilac won't talk to me again. There's a tremor. Lilac won't kiss me again. I won't hear her laugh. My lungs constrict. Why am I doing this to myself ?
Amie Kaufman
#37. What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death and insecurity about penis size.
Charlie Kaufman
#39. When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?
How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?
But not this one.
Amie Kaufman
#40. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
Bel Kaufman
#41. We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.
Andy Kaufman
#42. One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.
Margo Kaufman
#43. I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.
Lloyd Kaufman
#44. Employees are the key to your success with customers. Treat them well!
Ron Kaufman
#45. Your key concerns at that stage?"
"Well, Miss LaRoux had a party she didn't want to miss, and I - "
"Major, you don't seem to understand the seriousness of your situation."
"Sure I do. What the hell do you think our key concerns were?
Amie Kaufman
#46. When Aquatics are overwhelmed, they seek out the tallest object in view, lie on their backs, put their heads against it and look up. The ritual is called litill, and its purpose is to remind believers that they are actually quite small and, therefore, so are their problems.
Andrew Kaufman
#47. The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.
Ron Kaufman
#48. The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
Bel Kaufman
#50. I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.
Amie Kaufman
#51. I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.
Lloyd Kaufman
#52. You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.
Josh Kaufman
#53. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.
Paul A. Kaufman
#54. I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.
Charlie Kaufman
#55. There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.
Charlie Kaufman
#56. Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.
Ron Kaufman
#57. Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.
Amie Kaufman
#58. But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.
Margo Kaufman
#60. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell
Amie Kaufman
#61. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
#62. Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.
Philip Kaufman
#63. There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
Charlie Kaufman
#64. Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.
Amie Kaufman
#65. 'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
Lloyd Kaufman
#66. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.
Josh Kaufman
#67. I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
Charlie Kaufman
#68. Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?
Ron Kaufman
#69. Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. "Lilac, if something happened to you," he murmurs, "I would be anything but fine.
Amie Kaufman
#70. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.
Andy Kaufman
#71. I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
Charlie Kaufman
#72. The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.
Charlie Kaufman
#73. most widespread gains in brain training come from programs that simultaneously address multiple aspects of a person, such as traditional martial arts training and enriched school curricula.
Scott Barry Kaufman
#74. That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.
Philip Kaufman
#75. When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.
Paul A. Kaufman
#76. Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value.
Bel Kaufman
#77. Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
Bel Kaufman
#78. Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
Bel Kaufman
#79. Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
Philip Kaufman
#81. Are you moving forward, or just moving?
Ron Kaufman
#82. I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.
Amie Kaufman
#83. Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as ... private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.
Amie Kaufman
#84. Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won't go off on your own to investigate. I want your word. There's a command in his voice, soft as it is.
Amie Kaufman
#85. The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.
Josh Kaufman
#86. She wants to distract me that night, keep us from revisiting the conversation about the fuse. I've considered telling her that if she wants to distract me, all she has to do is take her shirt off.
Amie Kaufman
#87. I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
Charlie Kaufman
#88. More rain. If there's any more ran than this, I think, we'll need gills. We could swim up to the sky and leave this place with no need to wait for a rescue ship.
Amie Kaufman
#89. Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy.
Gerald Kaufman
#90. How is it that I can want him so badly when he's only been gone from me for a minute?
Amie Kaufman
#91. Do what's right and you'll never go wrong.
Ron Kaufman
#92. And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.
Charlie Kaufman
#93. But this guy ... this guy makes me pause. Makes me forget all of that. Dark, tumbly hair, thick brows, dangerously sweet eyes. Sensuous mouth, tiny smirk barely hidden at its corner. He's got a poets mouth. Artistic, expressive.
Amie Kaufman
#94. Service is the ultimate edge. Keep it sharp.
Ron Kaufman
#96. Service is taking action to create value for someone else.
Ron Kaufman
#97. I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.
Charlie Kaufman
#98. My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.
Margo Kaufman
#99. She's gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint.
Amie Kaufman
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