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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This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
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The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
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When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.
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People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.
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Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
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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.
