Will Ferrell Quotes
Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
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I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
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That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.
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God is a frequency. Stay tuned.
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In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
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Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
