Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early".
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
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Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early".
