Brad Garrett Quotes
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It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
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I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
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We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
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I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
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Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.
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It's fun to play people who are flawed.
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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.'
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You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.
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There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.
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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
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I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.
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Humor is healing.
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As a side note, I'd like to propose that aim is more mathematical than we tend to acknowledge. For me, it's: smallish dick ÷ long torso = distance to bowl.
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You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.
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I became a stand-up because that was my survival.
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I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.
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I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.
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The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.
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I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
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I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.
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In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.
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I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
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Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.
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When I hit the six-foot mark at thirteen, I noticed the majority of the population was in denial with regard to my athletic potential. The townspeople refused to believe that I couldn't play ball.