Jim Cummings Quotes
One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
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One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
