Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I was an expert horseman.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Accept loss forever.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.
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The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I'm very worried about the future of separation of church and state: will it survive in a meaningful way? I'll tell you, there are a very large number of people throughout this country whose values, statements, and conduct appear to place them in some alternate universe governed by some constitution they apparently found while cleaning out their sock drawer. It is not the American “living” Constitution that reflects, increasingly, the search for individual freedom and justice: in other words, what the Constitution's purpose is.
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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
