Andy Kaufman Quotes
I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I love working with women.
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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
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To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.
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Bill Murray was just so funny to me - there wasn't anything spooking him.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
