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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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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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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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.
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I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
