Virginia Madsen Quotes
I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.
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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
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Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!
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You don't really have time to watch TV if you work on TV.
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I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.
