Jane Wagner Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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We shred every day.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
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The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.
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You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
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If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
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A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
