Top 55 Chops Quotes

See, I’m totally fearless. I got my chops in the most, like, dangerous comedy atmosphere. If you can make it in New York, you can really do stand-up anywhere.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they’re salacious and funny and self-reflective.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that’s how you learn your chops.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

It wasn’t all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

Whenever you play against Fred – we certainly did it – you let him get it because he has to take three or four touches. He doesn’t know how to do one or two touches. Anyone that watches his game, he gets it facing the wrong way, turns, turns, chops, chops and he’ll give you the ball three or four times a game.

It was pretty radical to go from the Eagles to being the only melodic instrument. You have to play a certain way. It’s like the Who. It was a great kick in the pants for me to get my chops up and to improvise a little more.

My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.

I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so much as their dating website wishlist.

You know ‘Ninotchka?’ I recommend it. It’s kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.

I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he’s his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that’s all his own.

Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I’ll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn’t call him any more. He couldn’t bust my chops. He made a huge difference in my life on so many levels.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it’s about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other’s chops, and that’s not what women’s comedy is.

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on ‘CHiPs’ but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

It’s easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage – four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers’ chops.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won’t develop your acting chops.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they’ve just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.

My chops are still up, even though I’m not still in high school.

I’m a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don’t play for a year, my chops aren’t going to get any worse. I’ve spent my time playing scales, and I don’t necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

I know the crew so well, so I forget I’m being filmed. It’s like cooking with a friend in the kitchen – you’re talking, as you do, and maybe you’re telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops – it’s more natural, more honest.

Ten inches is a very versatile size for a skillet. It’s the ideal vessel for sauteing vegetables for a small family or searing a couple of large steaks, pork chops, or pieces of fish.

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.

Pittsburgh’s definitely the city where I learned how to be on a stage, hold a microphone, and interact with an audience. It’s where I got my chops as an entertainer and as a performer, so I’m grateful to the queer community there because they are active and vocal and they care about each other.

Why did God have to make Mo’Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo’Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo’Nique comedy specials.

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, ‘Which way?’

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he’s not big on rotation.

Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.

All those years we’d spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you’d play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those songs and trying to play guitar and develop my chops. I was a big fan.

I wouldn’t say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don’t think I’m a comedian by any stretch of the imagination.

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

They wouldn’t take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You’re not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you’re good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, ‘Shug’: pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

No idea should be discarded completely, but – as one might imagine – it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the ‘Adam and Eve’ story. But if you think you’ve got the chops for it, there’s no reason not to try.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

When I was a kid, it was always very embarrassing for me if I wet the bed – I was 5 years old. I didn’t want my parents or my brothers to find out because they’d bust my chops to no end.

I know that I’m capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I’m not a learned musician.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it’s me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can’t beat brats.

I like to keep my voice going. I don’t want it to lose its chops. You know, as you age, it’s easier for you to lose it.

Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that’s where I got my rapping chops up.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn’t because I wanted to make simple music. It’s because I don’t really have the chops.

If I’m in a town for very long, usually I’ll work out in the comedy club just to keep my chops or work out the beats on new stuff.

Lamb chops is my favourite.