Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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That was really strange, having to come up with a new surname [when my agent deemed my birth name too hard for people to remember]. After a long decision making process, me and my parents agreed on Lara because that was the name that sounded the most beautiful.
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I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
