Joel McHale Quotes
It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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Our goal should be to, together, to improve Obamacare so that even more people have access to affordable, quality health insurance and services.
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There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
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Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
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It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
