Marlon Wayans Quotes
Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I don't like controversy.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
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Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
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Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff.
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Family matters. Family are the only people who will tell you when you're getting off the tracks a little. Surround yourself with people who love the Lord, love themselves and love you, and you can't really fail.
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Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
