Allison Janney Quotes

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

Allison Janney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1960

Topics

AnimalsHandUpStomachVeterinarian

I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

Jesmyn Ward

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I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Stella Maeve

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I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

Tre Cool

ChildhoodNormalMeansAny

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

Luke Evans

GoodGreatTimeYouBadActing

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Debbie Macomber

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I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country.

Dee Rees

FreeCountryDesireKindNashville

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Donald Glover

FunnyJobThinkNothingEverything

And if you had an, an opportunity to have a hot meal, you did. That was the cook. But you didn't stop and say, This is dinnertime and Oh wait it's five o'clock, it's time to eat for supper.

Chingy

OpportunityTimeWaitYouStopSay

I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.

Bruce Forsyth

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I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.

Anton du Beke

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It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.

Willie Geist

LiveFunWritingThinkBetterYou

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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