Jackie Mason Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You either are or you're not.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
