Kal Penn Quotes
The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
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My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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I love Alexander Wang!
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
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As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.
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What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?
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My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!
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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
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There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
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The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.
