Dennis Miller Quotes

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything else, cuz I have no idea what anything else is like!

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

First of all, be what you are.

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!