Dennis Dugan Quotes

I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later, he was doing "Happy Gilmore" and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.

Dennis Dugan

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• My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Film
  • Acting

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Forever
  • Matter
  • Prosecutor

• Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Experience
  • True

• First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Healthy

• We boil at different degrees.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Different

• I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Stop

• Exeat aulaqui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestasnon coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.

  

  Lucan

• Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • Different
  • American

• I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Time
  • Age

• 'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Movie
  • Superhero

• It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Job

• The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Art
  • American
  • Bad

• I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

  

  Joanna Newsom

• Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • People
  • Driving

• Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

  

  Ann Romney
  • Different
  • Important
  • Marriage

• If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

  

  Andy Daly

• I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Golf
  • Random

• I've been a Democrat all my life.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Life

• I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Research

• One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• It's pretty clear I am a diehard Chris Cornell fan, so his voice, musicianship, and lyrics have touched me across many different projects.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Voice
  • Fan
  • Musicianship

• I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later, he was doing "Happy Gilmore" and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.

  

  Dennis Dugan