John Larroquette Quotes

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attention
  • Yourself
  • Turn

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Thought
  • Younger
  • Retiring

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Man
  • Black
  • Deep

• I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Happy
  • Church

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Women
  • Comedy

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Tolerance
  • Ethics
  • Beliefs

• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Mother
  • Language

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Pool

• They had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • People
  • Like
  • Bad Guys

• We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Stop
  • Silence

• 'The Living And The Dead' is one of those scripts that you read and are instantly compelled and engaged by. It's intelligent, chilling, and engrossing.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Intelligent

• When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

  

  John Larroquette
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