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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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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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 always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
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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.
