Eddie Arcaro Quotes
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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I like children - fried.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.
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Even though 'Spider-Man' is a huge blockbuster, it really didn't feel like that. It felt like we were making this weird, funny high school movie. Like just hanging out with a group of friends.
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When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.
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With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
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The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.
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It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.
