J. B. Smoove Quotes
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, either bigotry or hatred or whatever derision they have for me, I don't allow for it to really bother me, because I don't need it.
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I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
