Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
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For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
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I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.
