H. Jon Benjamin Quotes
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.
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Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.
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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
