Tommy Cooper Quotes
So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
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I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.
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So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".
