Martin Lawrence Quotes
I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
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I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.
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You're only as good as the people you hire.
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I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
