Eugene Mirman Quotes
It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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Let's not forget, I got divorced.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.
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Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.
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I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.
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[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press
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It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.
