John Oliver Quotes
There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.
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I see myself as a serious artist, but yeah, when people come to my shows, they want to hear 'What Was I Thinkin',' 'Drunk on a Plane,' and lots of up-tempo, fun songs.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.
