J. B. Smoove Quotes
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
Quotes to Explore
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
