Rich Cohen Quotes

With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.

Rich Cohen

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• Quality
• Charming
• George
• Distinctive

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• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

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• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

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• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

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• Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

  

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• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  

  M. Ward
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• I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

  

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• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

  

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• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

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• I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.

  

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• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

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• My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

  

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• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

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• It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

  

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• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  

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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

  

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• All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

  

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• I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

  

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• Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.

  

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• There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

  

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• With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • American
  • Quality
  • Charming