Patrick Stump Quotes
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
