Lake Bell Quotes
I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.
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I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
