Doing Quotes
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I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
