Michael Ian Black Quotes
It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."
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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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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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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
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Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
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Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
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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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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."
