Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
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As the late Howard Zinn once said, 'There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.'
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I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
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I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
