Denis Leary Quotes

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
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  • Boy

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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  • High
  • Boy

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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  • Art

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
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• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
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  • Reading

• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • School
  • Business
  • English

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
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  • Son

• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
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• I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.

  

  James L. Brooks
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• Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • People
  • Children
  • Job

• If we go out there, and we play well and win football games, all the good stuff will come with it. It's not my job to worry about something I can't control.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Job
  • Control
  • Win

• I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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  • Will
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• I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
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• I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

  

  Denis Leary
  • School
  • Job