Hal Sparks Quotes

• You’d think after 8 years of things called ‘The Patriot Act’ and ‘No Child Left Behind’ they would know that we have figured out the ‘Call it what it ain’t’ PR ploy by now, but… um… no.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After, Child, Act

• Vegas has the Whitman’s Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn’t shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Find, Attention

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Pet, Become, Portions

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard ‘Little Earthquakes’ all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rain, Words, Really

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Rain, Words, Used

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists – the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people – tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn’t exist.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Often

• The name ‘Charmageddon’ actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

  Hal Sparks

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  Tags in Saying, Ever, Away

• The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

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  Tags in Important, Audience, Genuine

• Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can’t run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn’t poison the rest of us, You can’t run a company.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Rest, Innovative

• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

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  Tags in Change

• People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you’re killing your body and that’s something to be guilty about.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Down, Guilty

• Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Off, Kids, House

• Most ‘reality’ shows aren’t reality at all. They’re game shows with no prize. Like ‘Rock of Love.’ His aren’t genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn’t really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone’s dreams.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Dreams, Rock

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it’s more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoy, Show, Actually

• Jerry Springer’ is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

  Hal Sparks

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  Tags in Kind

• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Anything, Study, Longer

• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you’re not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don’t know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Freedom, Community

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I’ve done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it’s important to have substance for what you’re saying.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Job, Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Important

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I’ve done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Job, Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Important

• I’ve been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old, Since, Stand

Hal Sparks (38)

Birth:	25th September, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Hal Sparks is an American actor, comedian, musician and television personality. He is known for his contributions to VH1, hosting E!'s Talk Soup, and the role of Michael Novotny on the American television series Queer as Folk and as Donald Davenport in Lab Rats.

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