Marty Feldman Quotes
I carry Keaton's photo around with me to remind me what happened to him. If the Hollywood system can destroy him it can destroy me.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
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I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.
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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
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The sense of death is most in apprehension.
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I carry Keaton's photo around with me to remind me what happened to him. If the Hollywood system can destroy him it can destroy me.
