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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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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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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When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'
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...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.
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I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.
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Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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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."
