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.
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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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Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
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If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind of don't, which is not really good - I can learn more and more about their lives, and that makes me a more open person and a more accepting person.
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People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
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Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.
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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.
