Jeff Garlin Quotes
I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
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I'm very sensitive to the incredibly diverse range of opinions within religious and secular communities, and honestly, I'd appreciate if we focused first on the experiences and dignity of the people.
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I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
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I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.
