John Landis Quotes

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

John Landis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1950

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When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'

Si Robertson

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My worst trait is that I'm an introvert. When I've led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my natural desire to run and hide. I'm very proud of the fact that I have been able to do that.

Shonda Rhimes

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Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Tom Robbins

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It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

Masi Oka

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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Mikhail Bakunin

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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.

Jaylen Brown

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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

David Sedaris

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Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

Claudia Cardinale

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I do not represent the Republican Party.

Arlen Specter

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