Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
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When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.
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My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
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The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.
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I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.
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I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.
