Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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My mother taught me to read.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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India always inspires me.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
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I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
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There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
