John Oliver Quotes
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
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I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.
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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.
