John Candy Quotes
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
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Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.
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I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.
