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 had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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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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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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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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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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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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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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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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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I loved being a film executive. But something was always missing for me. I always had the feeling that I was looking over my shoulder - what's going on on Broadway?
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There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.
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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".
