Morey Amsterdam Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
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I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.
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If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act.
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I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
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Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
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People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
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People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door
