Adam Quotes

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

I always give myself a little part in every movie.

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.

It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.