Robert Webb Quotes

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

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• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

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• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

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• Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.

  

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• A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

  

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• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

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• As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

  

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• I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

  

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• Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.

  

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• I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

  

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• I don't think I am a very big star on TV.

  

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• Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

  

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• For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

  

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• I have one good girlfriend and then most of my friends are guys. Which I love, because they're just like so easygoing and I love to play like Xbox and just chill out when I'm not working, so boys are probably the way to go for me.

  

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• 'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

  

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• Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.

  

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• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

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• I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.

  

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• Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

  

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• Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

  

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• To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

  

  Robert Webb
  • Pretty
  • Comedy