Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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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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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
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This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.
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Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.
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One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.
