Will Patton Quotes

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

Take not counsel of your fears

Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.

Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

The soldier is the army.

Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, This is where I wanna be.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the "Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway."

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.