Randy Quaid Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I hate celebrating birthdays.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
