- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
- Nov 07, 2020
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
- Assumptions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
- Phone Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020