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Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1966

Topics

Acting Actor Never Always Planned

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Job Library First Assistant Prophecy

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Love Mother Daughter Men Wife Woman

I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.

Good Myself Queen Me Chance Enough

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

Time Water Men Woman Sleep Road

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

Robert J. Sawyer

People View Point Of View Real Own

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Gratitude Dead Quick Off How Owed

Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I'm having as much fun with it as possible.

Life Fun My Life Possible Just One

The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.

Me Moving Matter Where Only Whose

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

Ludivine Sagnier

Love Character Yourself Feel You

I've been cast in a lot of comedies. I've done things like multi-cam sitcoms: you know, 'Seinfeld' type... not as good as 'Seinfeld,' but that kind of thing. I love that stuff.

Love Good You Know Done Kind

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

Unfair Double Taxation Simply Form

It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.

Children Woman Fight Thinking Better

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