Vic Mignogna Quotes
Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.
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The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
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Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.
