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Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

Yakov Smirnoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: russian
Birth: January 24, 1951

Topics

Happy Someone Be Nice Nice Get Only

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

Joe Pantoliano

Bird School I Am Acting Years Being

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Jodie Foster

Young Get Like Dakota Fanning

Home is where the heart is, and my heart will forever be in Cleveland.

Anderson Varejao

Home Heart Will Forever Where

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

Mel Gibson

Time Think Critics Always Audience

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Matthew Henry

Elephant Where Drown Would Lamb

If you're married you'll have tough times.

Jeff Bridges

Tough Times Tough You Married Times

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

Amanda Schull

Love Character Day Fun Me Wake Up

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.

Stephen Graham Jones

Mask Early Hannibal Conventions

We need somebody to give us a chance.

Tony Dungy

Chance Need Us Give Somebody

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Ruth Reichl

Cooking Man Me Writing Think Done

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Dick Armey

Hurt Farm Farmers Everyone Pay

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Denis Leary

Free Comedy Speech You Try Bubbles