Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I always played to win.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I always have to be writing.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I'd have to reengage with him.
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The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.
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I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
