Oliver Hardy Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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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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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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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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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
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I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
