Jason Day Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.
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Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.
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Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.
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'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.
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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
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My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.
