Eddie Trunk Quotes
People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people don't like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love.
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I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
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People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
