Chris Elliott Quotes
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
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I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.
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To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.
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There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
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But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.
