Me Quotes
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I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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Nothing really scares me anymore.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
