Jeff Garlin Quotes
Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
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Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.
