Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.
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David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
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I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.
