Jack Dee Quotes

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

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• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Living

• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • America
  • Food

• Nothing is absolute in security.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Nothing
  • Security
  • Absolute

• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Change
  • Me

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Government
  • Sea
  • Process

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Like
  • Social
  • Autism

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.

  

  Barun Sobti

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• You can never overlook a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • You
  • Never

• The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

  

  Jack Dee
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