Brett Gelman Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.
