- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Best Quotes
Quotes on doing your best work.
These quotes focus on craft and timing - a drama student naming the first year as the best, and filmmakers explaining that the best visual effects and shots come from grounding fantasy in something real. Related reading includes Achievement Quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
- Conversational
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- Nov 07, 2020
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
- Fair Share
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to give my best for the team, help the team, and try and go out there and play the best I can for myself as well.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy to be in the centre for Wales - that's my favourite position and where I play my best football.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020