Daniel J. Goor Quotes
The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.
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We with Andrew Ridgeley didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
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The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.
