Bob Goff Quotes
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all the cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
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I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
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I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
