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John Slattery Quotes

When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1962

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Me Advice Someone Always Out Up

I told you to sell it, not give it away.

You Away Give Sell

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Live Business Job Waiting Comedy

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Me Reading Worth Say Columns

I've gained a seriousness that has to do with a certain perspective, a gratitude for being able to see the importance of things. And that lends itself a gravity to everything. And that is something that I sort of carry as a weight but a good weight inside of me.

Good Gratitude Perspective Me See

Be yourself. Don't try too hard - it shows.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Yourself Be Yourself Try Hard Shows

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

Nature Gossip Telephone

I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.

Day Know Air Force Navy Air Finish

I look forward to doing everything, whether appearing on TV or walking the dog.

Dog Forward Walking Doing Look TV

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

Society Present Without Individual

Sometimes it's good to be naive.

Good Sometimes Naive

I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

Think Hands You Look Filmmaking Own

'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.

World Comedy Cloud Television High

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