Josh Gad Quotes
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I played soccer, recreationally, in college.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.
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Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
