Eugene Mirman Quotes
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.
Quotes to Explore
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
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Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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'Why must there be war?' 'Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.'
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.
