Dave Finkel
Related GEORGE LOPEZ ODETTE ANNABLE I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,... T. J. PERKINS I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. AHMET ZAPPA BARBARA EHRENREICH LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD ANDIE MACDOWELL I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being '... PETRA COLLINS DR. DRE FREDERICK DOUGLASS ELLEN BURSTYN I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few... STERLING KNIGHT I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX JOHN RIDLEY There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was... PHYLICIA RASHAD I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. JEAN-MARIE LE PEN BILL BURR KEVIN HART I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I... ANNA NICOLE SMITH People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR NORMAN FINKELSTEIN KRISTIN CAVALLARI I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r... PAM FERRIS ADAM MCKAY SALMA HAYEK CHLOE SEVIGNY NIKKI HALEY LINDA RONSTADT I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't... ATTICUS SHAFFER MEGHAN MARKLE GRIZZ CHAPMAN AUDREY HEPBURN TOM SMOTHERS You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH KENDALL JENNER KAREN ARMSTRONG I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the cha... ESTHER ROLLE SYDNEY POLLACK I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO I walked out of... was it 'Stardust?' That thing with the witches? I was so looking forward ... SHARLTO COPLEY NATASHA TRETHEWEY It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like i... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE VANILLA ICE If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don... DICK WILLIAMS SUMMER GLAU CHARLES KURALT KELLY ROWLAND I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN DAVE NAVARRO REBA MCENTIRE BRAD PITT ANTHONY HOPKINS When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, whi... SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER YOGI BERRA I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the per... GEORGE BEST ERIC BURDON In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl... KEVIN MCKIDD I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoak... ROXANNE MCKEE CHUCK NORRIS I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. I... ZEDD GERRY COONEY I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn... KSI MARY J. BLIGE DIANNA AGRON GLEN DUNCAN JACK NICKLAUS In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us... BARRET OLIVER Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mi... VING RHAMES The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middl... BEN SHAHN DAVID JOHANSEN I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't li... URSULA ANDRESS I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever... JAMES MCGREEVEY I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean ... JAKE LAMOTTA When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn... CARLA HALL I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I go... ADAM GREEN COLM MEANEY YURI KOCHIYAMA I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it ... JANINA GAVANKAR CHARLES SCHWAB LADY GAGA MITCH HEDBERG ADAM DRIVER BEAR BRYANT LAILA ALI JERRY GARCIA GEORGE W. BUSH I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all ... KYP MALONE ALAN SHEARER MANAL AL-SHARIF PATRICK EWING I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick. FRANCES FARMER DAN RATHER Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can&... LORI PETTY LINDA FIORENTINO STEPHEN COLBERT ARI GRAYNOR JENNIFER GARNER
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A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each... DAVE FINKEL I'm insanely proud of every single one of my credits until the people who created the shows are ... DAVE FINKEL There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never ... DAVE FINKEL I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you. DAVE FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL These were huge bombs, ... They were designed to cause maximum devastation and loss of life. ANDREW FINKEL Certainly the Turkish press, the Turkey government at an official level is pointing to al Qaeda as b... ANDREW FINKEL We don't know exactly who these people are, what they are suspected of and whether they're going to ... ANDREW FINKEL I'm not sure anyone is prepared to handle a disaster like this one. Certainly the emergency services... ANDREW FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battl... CAROLINE FINKEL To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting ... CAROLINE FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL The market has a few more stocks up in the Dow just because of that. JAY FINKEL The Dow is doing better on the back of Boeing. JAY FINKEL We're kind of in a holding pattern, waiting to see what happens (with the storm). But the overall to... JAY FINKEL The market is actually putting on a pretty good performance in the face of this oil move up to new h... JAY FINKEL It's a bit surprising to see stocks up so much today, but the fact that the storm is not as strong a... JAY FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL MICHAEL FINKEL DAVE MATTHEWS Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But... DAVE ATTELL Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans ... DAVE WINFIELD DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. DAVE ANDERSON DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bod... DAVE BAUTISTA A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are t... DAVE ATTELL DAVE DAVIES I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I s... DAVE GAHAN The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk. DAVE FOLEY DAVE DAVIES Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a... DAVE BRUBECK DAVE EGGERS That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible. DAVE HAYWOOD DAVE EGGERS DAVE EGGERS DAVE BRAT DAVE BARRY Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be... DAVE MORRIS Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm ... DAVE ROWNTREE DAVE MATTHEWS We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some hea... DAVE OBEY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated ... DAVE GAHAN I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts. DAVE FREUDENTHAL DAVE GROHL I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do... DAVE LEGENO DAVE BARRY The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is va... DAVE DEBRONKART Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones'... DAVE MORRIS Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son ... DAVE GAHAN DAVE BARRY DAVE BARRY The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..DAVE ZEBIAN DAVE BARRY DAVE PELZER 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr... DAVE MORRIS DAVE MATTHEWS I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at on... DAVE SITEK We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. 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It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I co... 
'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... 
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature... 
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. 
During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I coul... 
The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it. 
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. 
I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ... 
I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ag... 
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#... 
In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with... 
I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I di... 
It happened on 'Laguna Beach' where you don't know what's real and fake, and I saw c... 
I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what ... 
I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nob... 
I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or... 
I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn'... 
I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then,... 
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fightin... 
I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days ... 
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn&#... 
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just did... 
I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... 
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It ... 
What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn'... 
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... 
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't... 
I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... 
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got th... 
I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don'... 
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don... 
Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that... 
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that w... 
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... 
If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work... 
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions o... 
In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, m... 
I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't g... 
I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug... 
There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in a... 
While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. 
I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I coul... 
I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it. 
Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show w... 
I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequiti... 
We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came ou... 
I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You ... 
If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work. 
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don'... 
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think... 
I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... 
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others... 
I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call '... 
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. 
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't o... 
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an... 
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, ... 
It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wai... 
The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... 
I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group ... 
I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are act... 
I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? T... 
With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knee... 
His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent s... 
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a ... 
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. 
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi... 
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. 
As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hindui... 
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood abou... 
And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, stra... 
The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it se... 
It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civ... 
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're... 
I'm so alive.
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi... 
There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slu... 
Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural En... 
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, ... 
Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading. 
Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long. 
A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread o... 
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo... 
Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. 
You can't choose what you're famous for in life. 
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dic... 
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offeri... 
In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's i... 
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. 
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basi... 
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. 
I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everyt... 
My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They'v... 