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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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.
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I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.
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Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.
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Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.
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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
