Steven Wright Quotes

I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Steven Wright

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We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

Jim Broadbent

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I hate wasting time.

Robert Plant

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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Michael J. Fox

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I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

Mary Steenburgen

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Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Martin Parr

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I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.

Michael Steger

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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Louisa May Alcott

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I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which is great.

Julia Garner

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Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn't have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.

Jason Momoa

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I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

Josh Homme

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I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in pretty quickly, but I couldn't stop partying. They gave me a warning: 'If you do it again, we're gonna kick you off the main stage.'

Chris Farley

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