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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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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My first audition was for a Dr. Pepper commercial.
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As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
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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.
