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 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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When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
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My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.
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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.
