Lonnie Donegan Quotes

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

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• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

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• I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

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• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

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• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

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• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

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• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

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• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

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• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

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• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

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• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

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• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

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• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

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• Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.

  

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• If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

  

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• My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

  

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• I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.

  

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• Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Mother
  • Overnight
  • Gum