Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
Quotes to Explore
-
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
-
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
-
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
-
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
-
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
-
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
-
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
-
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
-
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
-
My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
-
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
-
At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
-
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
-
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
-
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
-
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
-
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
-
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
-
Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
-
Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
-
I always have to bring back an all-A report card.
-
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
-
Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"
-
When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
