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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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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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 was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
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I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
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The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.
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I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.
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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.
