Elayne Boosler Quotes

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

Elayne Boosler

• Theater
• Club
• Richard Pryor
• Jackie Mason

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• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

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• I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

  

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• I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

  

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• My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

  

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• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  

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• I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

  

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• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

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• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  

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• Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

  

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• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

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• The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

  

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• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

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• It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

  

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• I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.

  

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  • Bad
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• Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

  

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• I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Theater
  • Club
  • Richard Pryor