Niecy Nash (Carol Denise) Quotes
I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else.
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I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
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I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.
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The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.
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The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
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I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
