Jake Johnson Quotes
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.
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I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.
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I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
