Jamie Kennedy Quotes
I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.
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I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.
