John Carroll Lynch Quotes
I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I never really learned photography.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Writing bores me so.
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I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.
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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
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You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
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I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.
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I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.
