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.

Penelope Spheeris

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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've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

  

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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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• Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.

  

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• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

  

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• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

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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.

  

  Penelope Spheeris
  • Money