Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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The really exciting focus here is the event and others like it that encourage, support and celebrate the enterprising innovation of pioneers working to give humanity wings.
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'Hey, what's the name of that nice young girl, my loyalist supporter?' I said, Mr. President, her name is Annie Ferrer. 'Will you give that girl my regards and kisses?' he asked. I said yes, of course-it was really strange.
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
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The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
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I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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The common person fears to think beyond the common.
