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'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
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Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning
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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.
