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Scott Adsit Quotes

I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 26, 1965

Topics

School High School Doing High Improv

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

Best Wish You Band Like Blondie

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

Andie MacDowell

Me Singing Remember Stop Watching

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations.

Girl Politics Loved Acting More Up

If you rile a tiger, he's going to show his claws.

Rob James-Collier

You Tiger Going Show Claws He

I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.

Experience I Am Think Chair Stronger

I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.

Relationship New York People World

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Lord Mountbatten

Knowledge Person Floating Slowly Had

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

Life Live Fun Road Walking Enjoy

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

Better American Immigrants Understand

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

Key Data Missed Things Social Made

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

History Man Civilization Thread His

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

I Am Cool Sorry Regret Hurt Said

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