Jay Roach Quotes
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
