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Quotes by Entertainer
"I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me."
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"I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4."
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"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."
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"Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?"
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"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
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"I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade."
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"Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song."
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"To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed."
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"I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring."
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"Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in."
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"I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun."
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"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
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"We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time."
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"It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route."
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"There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on."
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"One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it."
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"Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite."
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"There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film."
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"The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum."
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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
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"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity."
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"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth."
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"This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week."
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"Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there."
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"Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run."
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"Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it."
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"Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me."
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"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."
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"Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers."
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"Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other."
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"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt."
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"And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992."
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"Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck."
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"I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that."
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"The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope."
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"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."
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"With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart."
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"Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system."
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