Quotes & Sayings About Fargo

[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours. — Stanley Tucci

What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow. — Tim Fargo

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be. — Tim Fargo

Never forget the value of time. You can acquire much in life. By comparison, time is fixed. Use it wisely. — Tim Fargo

I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that. — Warren Buffett

Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego. — Tim Fargo

Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night. — Allison Tolman

Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. — Jana Oliver

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences. — Tim Fargo

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity. — Tim Fargo

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results. — Tim Fargo

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it. — Francine Pascal

When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we put ourselves in a position to receive. God does not change and nature's laws are absolute and impartial. Thus, prayer has the potential for changing us. It connects us with God's spirit, and it is the key to His kingdom. Whatever your religious persuasion, it's a good thing to start every day with prayer. — Donna Fargo

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other. — Noah Hawley

I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.' — Allison Tolman

'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies. — Tate Donovan

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity. — Tim Fargo

No controversy, no PR. — Tim Fargo

Progress and motion are not synonymous. — Tim Fargo

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them. — Tim Fargo

There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality. — Tim Fargo

I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks. — Tim Fargo

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds. — Myron Scholes

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go. — Tim Fargo

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. — Tim Fargo

Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect. — Charlie Munger

People respond well to managers who stop being bosses and start being leaders. They go the extra mile if they genuinely believe that your success is their success and vice versa. — Tim Fargo

When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't. — Tim Fargo

Want to go really fast? Slow down and focus. — Tim Fargo

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer. — Martin Freeman

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then. — William H. Macy

What it meant." "That's fine." Bosch moved to the drawer and looked in. There were two thin manila files and two packs of envelopes with rubber bands holding them together. The first file he looked through contained Eno's birth certificate, passport, marriage license and other personal records. He put it back in the drawer. The next file contained LAPD forms and Bosch quickly recognized them as the pages and reports that had been removed from the Marjorie Lowe murder book. He knew he had no time to read them at the moment and put the file in the beer box with the other files. The rubber band on the first package of envelopes snapped when he tried to remove it and he was reminded of the band that had been around the blue binder that contained the case files. Everything about this case was old and ready to snap, he thought. The envelopes were all from a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Sherman Oaks and each one contained a statement for a savings account in the name of McCage — Michael Connelly

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage. — Tim Fargo

The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad. — Chuck Klosterman

Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life. — Donna Fargo

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched. — Donna Fargo

Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity. — Tim Fargo

Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude
the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The country said: "Look at them, with their fitness and their tans, their beaches and their movie stars, their Silicon Valley and silicone breasts, their orange bridge and their palm trees. God, I hate those smug, sunshiny bastards!" Because if you're up to your navel in a snowdrift in Ohio, nothing warms your heart like the sight of California on fire. If you're shoveling silt out of your basement in the Fargo flood zone, nothing brightens your day like watching a Malibu mansion tumbling down a cliff into the sea. And if a tornado just peppered the land around your Oklahoma town with random trailer trash and redneck nuggets, then you can find a quantum of solace in the fact that the earth actually opened up in the San Fernando Valley and swallowed a whole caravan of commuting SUVs. — Christopher Moore

I've always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of 'Fargo' and break it up in such a way that's it's not linear, per se. — Noah Hawley

The greatest risk is not taking any. — Tim Fargo

When Franklin Graham recently called for a boycott of gay-friendly companies on his Facebook page, it quickly became apparent that to follow through on his own initiative, he'd need to delete his Facebook account (he didn't), stop using any Microsoft software, and shut down all Apple devices. When he publicly moved the bank accounts of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to BB&T Bank in protest of a Wells Fargo ad featuring a lesbian couple and their daughter, it generated this Miami Herald headline: "Billy Graham Group Moving Money to BB&T, Sponsor of Miami Beach Gay Pride Fundraiser."110 — Robert P. Jones

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo — Tim Fargo

If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today. — Tim Fargo

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are. — Tim Fargo

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness. — Seann William Scott

The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean? — Noah Hawley

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed. — Tim Fargo

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent. — Allison Tolman

Last night's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin drew much higher ratings than the presidential debate. Did you know that? Yeah. Yeah, Biden attracted viewers who enjoyed his previous debate appearances, and Palin attracted viewers who enjoyed the movie 'Fargo.' — Conan O'Brien

I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other. — Donna Fargo

Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that. — Connie Willis

If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness. — Steve Erickson

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback. — Tim Fargo

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have ... "
"You're so sweet.'
" ... at the moment. — Clive Cussler

The path to wisdom is paved with humility. — Tim Fargo

People tell you that you cannot, because they do not. — Tim Fargo

I WOKE the next morning with a silly smile on my face. Like Donna Fargo, I was the "Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." even though I was still "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed. — Nick Wilgus

Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated. — Tim Fargo

According to Google statistics, people search the word "money" four times as often as the word "goal". This creates a word: "frustration". — Tim Fargo

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo. — Steve Erickson

Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board. — Warren Buffett

I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.' — Allison Tolman

I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go back to and can watch anytime it's on TV and I'll watch to the end, is Fargo. I think it's, like, a perfect film, it's genius. — Kelly Macdonald

Leadership is service, not position. — Tim Fargo

Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter. — Tim Fargo

Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow. — Donna Fargo

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it. — Tim Fargo

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective. — Tim Fargo

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart. — Noah Hawley

There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again. — Roger Ebert

I saw 'Fargo,' not when it came out, but probably a few years later, and went through multiple viewings - I'm sure my tape has been worn out. — Allison Tolman

Below her, fall was just starting to work its magic on the foliage, creating a blaze of rust and amber stretching into the foothills and up the mountains. It was her favorite time of the year and normally she loved this view. Today, it only reminded her of how much she had to lose. — Kate Fargo

Leaders don't need a path. They make one. — Tim Fargo

Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right. — Tim Fargo

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same. — Noah Hawley

I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they crocheted a sweater for a double-decker bus and drove it around. — Noah Hawley

I was not supposed to end up freezing my ass off in a remake of Harry Potter meets The Italian Job by way of Fargo. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again. — Noah Hawley

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world. — Tim Fargo

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region. — Noah Hawley

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen. — Jonny Lang

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times. — Tim Fargo

Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television. — Billy Bob Thornton

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies. — Roger Ebert

I love your personality, I said with wide eyes and an open smile. I had used this look before when a bank teller at Wells Fargo had threatened to put a ten-day hold on a check from my father because my average balance was $3.56. — Chelsea Handler

If I told what I knew about his relationship with Oswald, he might spend the rest of his career freezing his ass off in Fargo. — Stephen King

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear. — Tim Fargo

To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself. — Tim Fargo

You don't get any points in life for doing things the hard way. — Tim Fargo

2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world. — Al Gore

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line. — John Carroll Lynch

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too. — Tim Fargo

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. — Francine Pascal

There are no characters in the limited series Fargo that are derived from the characters in the film Fargo. It's hard to describe how remarkably true to the film the show is. — John Landgraf

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought. — Tim Fargo

I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman. — Allison Tolman

He calls us to run hard after Him, His commands, and His glory. The decision to be in God's will is not the choice between Memphis or Fargo or engineering or art; it's the daily decision we face to seek God's kingdom or ours, submit to His lordship or not, live according to His rules or our own. — Kevin DeYoung

Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored. — Tim Fargo

It is never wise to run any race but your own. — Tim Fargo

At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied,"Are they going to call the trade show police? — Tim Fargo