Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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My education was very tough.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?
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As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.
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Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.
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At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.
