You Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
