- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.
- Good Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020