Jim Carroll Quotes
I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
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We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.
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I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me. I'm a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don't.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.
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People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.
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I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
