Jake Johnson Quotes
I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.
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The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.
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Being excitable and passionate is what makes you look good because if you're engaged in what's going on, you radiate youth.
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You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.
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People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
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I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
