- Fun
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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.
- Gliding
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, you don't get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020