Adam Pally Quotes
I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.
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We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.
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I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
