Larry Gelbart Quotes
I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
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I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
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You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.
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You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
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There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.
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I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.
