Jack McBrayer Quotes
My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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Most men are fragile.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
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I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.
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“Within a Hell of godless emptiness submit yourself ever more to sleep's spell. All is a dream, all is nothingness: the flower of the world is the asphodel.”
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
