Allison Janney Quotes
I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Roma come before everything else.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
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A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
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I'm strong enough to guard the big guys and have enough heart to lock them down.
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Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we don't give that effort in the beginning and then we start showing the heart when we're about to get blown out. You have to play like that in the beginning and get stronger as the game goes on.
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I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.
