Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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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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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I've always liked sparkling wine. Rose, too.
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I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
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I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
