Adam Sandler Quotes
My mother says to me, when I'm making a new movie, she says, "Oh, is Steve Buscemi in it?" I'd say, "Yeah." And she, "Oh, then it's going to be a good one." I swear to God, she says that every time. And when I say Steve's not in it, she says, "Oh."
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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We love to play. We're good at what we do.
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
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My mother says to me, when I'm making a new movie, she says, "Oh, is Steve Buscemi in it?" I'd say, "Yeah." And she, "Oh, then it's going to be a good one." I swear to God, she says that every time. And when I say Steve's not in it, she says, "Oh."
