Michael Ian Black Quotes
Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.
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You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
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I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.
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I don't want to build a bunch of homes and sit on them.
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Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.
