Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.

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• No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

  

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

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• So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

  

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• In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

  

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• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  

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• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

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• Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

  

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• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

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• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

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• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

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• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

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• I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

  

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• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

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• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

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• There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

  

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• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

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• I have a lot of girlfriends. That's sort of my whole thing is, I have really, really deep friendships, more so than anybody I've ever met.

  

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• Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

  

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• By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

  

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• All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

  

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• Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  

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• When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Beach
  • Prove
  • Ruler