Jon Favreau Quotes

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.

Jon Favreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1966

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There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That's what executives want.

John Caudwell

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I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

John Leguizamo

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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

John Henrik Clarke

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Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

Matt Salmon

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I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

Anna Kendrick

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It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Angela Merkel

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I'm a striker; my job is to score goals.

Alvaro Morata

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I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

Tom Perez

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I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

Robin Lord Taylor

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I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it's in film, TV or theatre. My dream role's already been taken by Keira Knightley in 'Pride and Prejudice.' Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.

Roxanne McKee

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I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

Javier Bardem

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When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Brene Brown

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