Chris D'Elia Quotes
Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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We shred every day.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
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I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
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We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
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Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
