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 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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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  

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• You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

  

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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