Brad Garrett Quotes
My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
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I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think sometimes people have what I'll call an ulterior motive with a story.
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
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I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.
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My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'
