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Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

Neil Patrick Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 15, 1973

Topics

Job Me Trying Choose Will Things

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

Day Football Baseball Basketball Go

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

Time People Me Thought Long Out

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

Work Family Hard Work Morning Great

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

Stephen Wolfram

People Small Doubt Run Will Changes

I landed about one a year. Just enough to make me question the gas money and all the driving in rush hour. When you audition for commercials, it's a lot of driving. What I netted wasn't exactly matching the hours I was putting in. I figured I'm not a face that makes people want to buy Lysol. Then I auditioned for Progressive.

Stephanie Courtney

Money People Me Face Driving Year

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Economics Gender Discrimination Race

Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.

Money School Win High School You Go

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Decision Wrong Even Any Follows

Many hotels, I just sat there and - I call it the silent scream - I don't know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you'll just sit there for hours, man. There's no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You're just a dumb professional wrestler.

Man Tears You Down Place Dumb

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.

Coffee Money Me Smoke Starbucks Any

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

Love Good I Love Terminator

I always look for the character that gets into your guts and tells you, 'You have to play this.' You have to be brave enough to let everything else go and let the character guide you. When I read a script, I look for that kind of pull.

Character Brave Enough You Look Go

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