Ze Frank Quotes
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
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I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
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The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.
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We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.
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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
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I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.
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My house was a place where there was no difference between being a boy or a girl.
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My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.
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Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
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I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.
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It's complimacated. (sounds like compli-ma-kayted, emphasis on first syllable) 16