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Jack Nance Quotes

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

Jack Nance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 21, 1943 - December 30, 1996

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Me Down Done Kind First Real

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types.

Jen Kirkman

People Comedy Place Now Top Dice

The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

Andrew Nikiforuk

Work Business Financial Problem Oil

I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.

Melvyn Bragg

Live Someone Doing Nervous Cut Film

Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Luck Think Grey Weeds Within Got

It's always frustrating when you drop the ball. But you've got to go back out there, and you've got to put that play in the back of your head and keep on going.

Rob Gronkowski

You Back Play Go Out Head

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

Luc de Clapiers

Good Find Always Ability Wicked

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

Brendan Gleeson

Detail World Interesting Look Size

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

Bozoma Saint John

Family Walking New Kid Always Moved

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.

Annie Besant

Mother Moment Process Body First Up

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Annie Dillard

People World Think Name Artist Lit

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

William Shakespeare

Patience Say Nothing Will Pattern

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Richard M. Daley

History Time First Time First Cook