Words matter. These are the best Five-Minute Quotes from famous people such as Hannibal Buress, Jane McGonigal, Kimbal Musk, Kourtney Kardashian, Rachel Zoe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When people say, ‘How did you start in comedy,’ I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called ‘Pop It,’ where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It’s a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I’m stressed.
People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it’s like a five-minute conversation. The short answer is, ‘We’re creating community through food.’ That’s the big idea we had, the product we’re exporting. And it has paid off.
Everyday… well, if I’m doing it myself, I have my five-minute makeup routine, which is I do tinted moisturizer, and then I do a quick concealer, and I use our bronzer every day. And then I have to curl my lashes, and then I do our Quickie mascara, and that’s it.
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I’m strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I’m obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
You used to need a big camera to direct, but now, anyone with an iPhone can tell a story visually. You can film something. You can start off with a five-minute story, then a 10-minute story.
I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I’m a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I’m always working out.
Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.
I’ve made a five-minute video on ‘The Battering of Hillary Clinton.’
I am not interested to do a five-minute role in a film which is not exciting to me.
For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it’s been absolutely astonishing.
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that’ll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that’ll be in front of millions of eyes.
It’s not, like, how long you are on the screen, ‘Karwaan’ being the biggest the example. I may have had a five-minute role, but I know the appreciation that I got was a lot more than a five-minute role deserved probably.
The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.
I like getting to the meat of things. You can’t get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.
In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there’s usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.
If I’m coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don’t just say, ‘OK, now go five-minute goes,’ because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position?
I want to tell Miranda’s story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can live in a longer format.
I go to frozen pizza or soy chicken nuggets when I need a five-minute meal.
Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
I think in ‘Rocky IV’ there are three montages with three five-minute songs, which is insane. You can’t do that today.
