Jim Gaffigan Quotes

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

Jim Gaffigan

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• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

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• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

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• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  

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• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

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• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

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• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

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• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  

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• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  

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• Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.

  

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• I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

  

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• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

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• I love Al Pacino.

  

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• I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

  

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• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  

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• Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

  

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• You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

  

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• My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

  

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• As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Actors
  • Rejection
  • Deals