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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I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.
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Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
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They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
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I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
