Adam McKay Quotes
Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.
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At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
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I don't mind what I play, really.
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She was always young at heart, kind of dumb, kind of smart, and I loved her so.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
