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 am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
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When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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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.
