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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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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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I hope to someday have a fully functioning production company.
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I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know?
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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I am not a big skier, but I love apres-ski wear and imagine I would look great in an all-white, fur-trimmed ski suit.
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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.
