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Nell Scovell Quotes

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 8, 1960

Topics

Career First Decade Lived Guy Blend

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

Laugh Comedy Doing Uncomfortable You

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.

Service Job Writing Believe American

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

Sad Health Problems Think Him Cash

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

Start Voice Admit Target Even

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Experience Me Thinking Letters Him

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

Power You Way Divine Force Your

Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.

Women Wife Friends Situation Say

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Technology Culture Meaning Company

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

Style Stick Album Specific Really

Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance forms. No one else is concentrating on making pure classical numbers.

Dance Inclusion Numbers Movies Pure

I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.

Work Doing Professional Want Working

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

Day Blessings Every Day Nothing Take

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