Will Patton Quotes

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

The process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.

I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42™

Jesus Followers are called to be reflectors of His character, servants of his grace, ambassadors of His message and magnifiers of His glory!” ~ © gfp '42