Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

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• To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Real
  • Play
  • Film

• I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • School
  • High
  • Play

• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Play
  • Theatre

• If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Real
  • Guy
  • You

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Family
  • Play
  • Drama

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Enough

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Play
  • Him
  • Phone

• Only a genius can play a fool.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Play
  • Fool
  • Genius

• I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Interest
  • Aspect
  • Wheel

• This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

  

  Omar Sharif
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  • Man
  • Me

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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