Jason Lee Quotes
I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Justice is revenge.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I'm not a sun person.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.
