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John Oliver Quotes

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: April 23, 1977

Topics

Yourself You Just Because Anything

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

Work Beauty Job Voice Doing Beast

I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.

Work Love Lucky Him Get I Love

I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

Fun Me Drive Doing Enough Acting

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

John Gallagher, Jr.

New York Play New Moved York

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?

Best Me Writing Confused Go Park

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Blame Stand Soccer Lost Tennis Like

I wasn't allowed to throw big hooks and overhand rights until I'd been striking for three years. It's so you don't rely on those things from the very beginning. If your footwork sucks, and you can only stand in one place and throw your hands all crazy while the other person is running around, you're never going to be able to hit them.

Beginning Crazy Stand Hands You Big

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

Alone Government School Me Care You

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Jordan Peterson

Nature Learning Truth Time Together

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Funny People Say Some People Things

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Fool Man Wise Wise Man Difference

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

Work I Am Me Ownership Within Claim

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