Jessica Walter Quotes
When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
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I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.
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I think there's a weird stigma in the TV-film world that theater people can't be funny and understand subtlety, and I think that could not be more wrong.
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My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
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When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.
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When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
