Eddie Griffin Quotes
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
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No one can replace a unique person like Peter.
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I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.
