Jasper Carrott Quotes
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.
Jasper Carrott
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
Yolanda Adams
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch
I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
Laura Linney
You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge.
Kristine Opolais
Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
B. D. Wong
People don't know the real me. The hard times I went through are what led me to my life now. I was a mess as a teen! I was kind of wild and really unhappy.
Kristin Cavallari
Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
Douglas Brunt
I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!
Kajol
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.
Jasper Carrott
