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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In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.
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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.
