Penelope Spheeris Quotes
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.
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We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
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Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.
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It's a really nice way to cut your teeth, doing live shows. It's like going to the gym because you do have to think fast. You are constantly under the threat of people not laughing. Instead of getting hit, people could just not laugh, so you really are trying to mine quickly for the funniest thing you could say in that moment.
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Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
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Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
