Jeff Garlin Quotes
Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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Many people think they could do much better if they only had the opportunity that they don’t realize they already have.
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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
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I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.
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The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
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Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.
