Etan Cohen Quotes
When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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For me, family has always come first.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I like power and I like to use it.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
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I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
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But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.
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When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.
