Matt Besser Quotes

I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that.

Matt Besser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 22, 1967

Topics

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Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

John Hodgman

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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

Maurice Allais

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When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Andy Serkis

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Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.

Michael Fossel

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We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

Stephen J. Dubner

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With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.

Sterling K. Brown

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My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

Simone Manuel

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I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Tom Verlaine

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But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.

Ronnie Spector

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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

Lucinda Williams

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I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

Doreen Cronin

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Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Doug Collins

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