Jenny Eclair Quotes
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I work out sort of moderately.
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I know who I am.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
