W. C. Fields Quotes
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I like to do Pilates.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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My mom introduced me to science-fiction.
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My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
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I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
