Raab Himself Quotes & Sayings

Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile. — Scott Raab

Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office. — Scott Raab

The number-one show in America on Sundays will be Celebrity Apprentice. Monday nights, The Voice will be number one. Wednesday nights, Survivor will be number one. And Friday nights, Shark Tank will be number one. It just takes some time management for me to focus. — Scott Raab

Our three major acquisitions of recent years have all worked out exceptionally well - from both the financial and human standpoints. In all three cases, the founders were major sellers and received significant proceeds in cash - and, in all three cases, the same individuals, Jack Ringwalt, Gene Abegg and Vic Raab, have continued to run the businesses with undiminished energy and imagination which have resulted in further improvement of the fine records previously established. — Warren Buffett

Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best. — Scott Raab

I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show. — Scott Raab

One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute." — Scott Raab

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team. — Dominic Raab

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms. — Scott Raab

Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked my way of filming outdoors. It was the first use of helicopters on a documentary with the gyro-stabilized lenses. And a certain beauty of filming, allowing the drops to fall from a leaf into a puddle, allowing a spider to weave a web. Taking the breath to allow that to happen rather than showing scene after scene. — Scott Raab

The reason I have managed to get so many shows on television is because I've tried to be authentic. When you're gonna spend millions of dollars to see that come to life, they better believe it's a good idea, A. B, they better believe that the person who's telling the idea is gonna put themselves into this. — Scott Raab

I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic. — Scott Raab

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race. — Dominic Raab

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army]. — Scott Raab

Put it in their face," Gotti urged Sammy the Bull Gravano. "They want to see fucking lions and tigers and that's what we are. — Selwyn Raab

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done. — Scott Raab

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove. — Dominic Raab

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals. — Scott Raab

I'm consciously working very hard at not eating. — Scott Raab

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants, — Scott Raab

In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued. — Scott Raab

The Ranger who trained me at the time was [American] Major Buck Kernan, who became Supreme Allied Commander. I hadn't spoken to him in a few years, but he reached out to me and said, "I'm so proud of you." — Scott Raab

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head. — Scott Raab

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment. — Scott Raab

The Clash, in particular, transcends any category. — Scott Raab

If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way. — Scott Raab

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand." — Scott Raab

I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it. — Scott Raab

The first time I learned I could sell myself was when I convinced a wealthy American family to give me a job as a nanny. Childcare. Totally unqualified. But I learned to be ready for anything. And that I can adapt. That I can become the best diaper changer. — Scott Raab

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country. — Dominic Raab