John Mulaney Quotes
It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Most of the time I don't force records. I'm not one of these guys that put records out every nine, 10 months. I'm pretty long between records. I've only had a few in my career. I kind of wait until I feel I have really strong songs. I don't know if they're going to change the world or not, but I dig 'em, and if I dig 'em we make a record.
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When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.
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I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.
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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
