Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
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We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
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It's important for me to highlight my views for veterans who've fought for America and at the same time don't have anything to show for it. It's kind of dear to me.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
