Molly Shannon Quotes

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I think that for people who are trying to make a difference, you have to start the company being naive. You wouldn't do it if you understood all the work. I work a lot. I wish it was easier.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

It's great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.