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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
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.
-
When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
-
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.
-
I don't care about how much other actors get.
-
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.
-
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
-
Winning, you can overlook so many things.
-
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
-
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.
-
My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
-
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
-
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.
-
Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
-
My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
-
I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
-
Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
-
I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the credit for all that goes to everybody around me. I mean, I have it all because my entire family is so cooperative. I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there. So, I think it's, you know, in a way, a two-way street.
-
Sabotage is not merely something to be avoided or wished away; instead, it comes with the territory of leading, whether the “territory” is a family or an organization. And a leader’s capacity to recognize sabotage for what it is—that is, a systemic phenomenon connected to the shifting balances in the emotional processes of a relationship system and not to the institution’s specific issues, makeup, or goals—is the key to the kingdom.
-
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
