Josh Gad Quotes
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
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I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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Today's business climate is not for me.
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The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
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A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)
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I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.
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My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
