Marlon Wayans Quotes
I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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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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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
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And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.
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I'm not a Blockbuster boy, I never wanted to be. I just don't want to look back in 30 or 40 or 50 years and have my grandkids say, 'You did a lot of stupid shit, Granddad. What an idiot you were, smiling for the cameras and playing the game.'
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I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.
