Janeane Garofalo Quotes

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

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• A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

  

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

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• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  

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• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

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• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

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• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

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• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

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• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

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• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

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• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

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• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

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• When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

  

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• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

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• When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

  

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• My mom is positive and optimistic.

  

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• People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.

  

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• Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

  

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• Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
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• I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
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