Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
