Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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They really wanted to find the chemistry.
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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
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Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.
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The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
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I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.
