Jon Lovitz Quotes
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
