Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I think I need security.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I owe everything to France.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
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I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
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I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
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I asked my wife if she enjoys a cigarette after sex and she said "No, one drag is enough".
