Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you're showing up for a backyard barbecue.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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Lease terms don't fit start-up lives.
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When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.
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In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
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You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you're gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It's sad. It's scary, and it's also sad. Because you like these people.
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The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you're showing up for a backyard barbecue.
