- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020