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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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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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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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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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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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.
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Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.
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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.
