Jim Jarmusch Quotes
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
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Gratitude is the the energy of faith.
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I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
