Bill Burr Quotes
You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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I always have to be writing.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.
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When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.
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I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.
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My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.
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I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.
