Jon Lovitz Quotes
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
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If I have a meeting or need to look more done up, the thing I can always do is a cat eye.
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Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.
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You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
