Colin Quinn Quotes
I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.
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I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
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I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
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Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.
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I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
