Dan Aykroyd Quotes
You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.
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Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
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You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
