Michael Mckean Quotes

#1. I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for 'A Mighty Wind,' which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. I'm just a sucker for any funny guy that has a wife who is intelligent and that he collaborates with.

Julie Klausner

#2. Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

Michael McKean

#3. I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

Michael McKean

#4. The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality.

Esther Perel

#5. For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.

Bruce-Novoa

#6. During the course of my research on #herbs mentioned in the #Bible , I found that #pomegranate is regarded as a wonder #fruit in many other.

Sudhir Ahluwalia

#7. You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

Michael McKean

#8. I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

Michael McKean

#9. Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

Lakshmi Mittal

#10. The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

Michael McKean

#12. I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing I always tell people. I'm not a preacher, I'm a sinner. I'm still learning and falling in a journey that God has me on and doing the best I can.

Drew Waters

#13. I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

Michael McKean

#14. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

Buzz Aldrin

#15. They were kind of like little Stephen King stories ... but these go back many hundreds of years.

Michael McKean

#16. There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

Michael McKean

#17. Children are geniuses.

Kristin Cashore

#18. I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Sophie Tucker

#19. Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see ... or to hear!

Michael McKean

#20. There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Kazinsky

#21. Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Michael McKean

#22. That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

Michael McKean

#23. Believing that your parents are always right.

Paulo Coelho

#24. The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way ... well, actually, that's not true.

Michael McKean

#25. When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Michael McKean

#26. In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

Rick Derringer

#27. It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Michael McKean

#28. We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

Terry Pratchett

#29. You know what they say. Good men stink of soil, oil, and other toil; villains smell of roses.

Anonymous

#30. I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

Michael McKean

#31. Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

Michael McKean

#32. I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Michael McKean