David Zucker Quotes

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

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• Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

  

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• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

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• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

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• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

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• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

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• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

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• I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.

  

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• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

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• I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

  

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• Let's just focus on unity and love.

  

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• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  

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• I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

  

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• I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

  

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• A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

  

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• I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

  

  David Zucker
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