Joe Mantello Quotes

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

Joe Mantello

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1962

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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

Jenny Eclair

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When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

Tracy Morgan

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We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

Tony Dungy

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The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Tom Harkin

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Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile.

Rosamund Pike

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I'm very private, not the interview type.

Romeo Santos

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I'm really starting to get bored with myself, doing the same workouts. 'Oh here we go again.' I need someone to crack the whip. I need someone to kick my butt because sometimes I can end up taking it pretty easy on myself.

Mike Colter

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For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Michelle Obama

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I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.

Michael Socha

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With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

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You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

Lisa Randall

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My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

Chris Pine

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