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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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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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
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I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.
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You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
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I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
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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.
