Damon Wayans, Jr. quote: "Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it."

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofba...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. B...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
DAMON WAYANS

I never thought about being famous.
DAMON WAYANS

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
DAMON WAYANS

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
DAMON WAYANS

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
DAMON WAYANS

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
DAMON WAYANS

We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
DAMON WAYANS

The show has become my therapy.
DAMON WAYANS

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
DAMON WAYANS

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
DAMON WAYANS

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
DAMON WAYANS

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
DAMON WAYANS

This town was built on nepotism.
DAMON WAYANS

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot l...
DAMON WAYANS

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
DAMON WAYANS

I wouldn't dignify that with a response.
DAMON WAYANS

There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the c...
DAMON WAYANS

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situation...
SHAWN WAYANS

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying...
SHAWN WAYANS

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you'r...
MARLON WAYANS

I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
MARLON WAYANS

I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, &...
MARLON WAYANS

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and li...
MARLON WAYANS

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happen...
MARLON WAYANS

There's a certain level of comfort that comes when you move in together. The mystery is gone. Sh...
MARLON WAYANS

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much abo...
MARLON WAYANS

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three p...
MARLON WAYANS

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you tr...
MARLON WAYANS

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay peop...
MARLON WAYANS

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You ca...
MARLON WAYANS

I like All Saints. They make great leathers. I love Hugo Boss, especially the suits. I like James Pe...
MARLON WAYANS

The Real Slim Shady.
SHAWN WAYANS

It's an exciting sport. It's fresh, even though it's been around for a while. For us, it's just star...
SHAWN WAYANS

And with our family, we are trying to extend our brand.
SHAWN WAYANS

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
MARLON WAYANS

I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
MARLON WAYANS

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or ...
SHAWN WAYANS

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
MARLON WAYANS

'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch&...
MARLON WAYANS

So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white ...
MARLON WAYANS

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat...
MARLON WAYANS

Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they m...
MARLON WAYANS

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' an...
MARLON WAYANS

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, ...
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

Slot machines are like crack for old people.
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the ne...
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie...
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
DAMON RUNYON

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more w...
DAMON HILL

Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their f...
DAMON GALGUT

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
DAMON GALGUT

I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue....
DAMON GALGUT

Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South ...
DAMON GALGUT

I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of ...
DAMON GALGUT

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
DAMON GALGUT

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
DAMON GALGUT

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind &#...
DAMON GALGUT

I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
DAMON GALGUT

Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was...
DAMON GALGUT

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be co...
DAMON GALGUT

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
DAMON GALGUT

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitte...
DAMON GALGUT

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in th...
DAMON GALGUT

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw yo...
DAMON GALGUT

I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
DAMON GALGUT

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequence...
DAMON GALGUT

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around...
DAMON GALGUT

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal,...
DAMON GALGUT

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
DAMON GALGUT

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about ly...
DAMON GALGUT

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people gr...
DAMON GALGUT

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things a...
DAMON GALGUT

I'm not designed to interact with society.
DAMON GALGUT

The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the epis...
DAMON LINDELOF

I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of...
DAMON LINDELOF

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
DAMON LINDELOF

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
DAMON LINDELOF

I always remember liking school.
DAMON LINDELOF

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don&...
DAMON LINDELOF

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'...
DAMON LINDELOF

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
DAMON LINDELOF

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that...
DAMON LINDELOF

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
DAMON LINDELOF

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
DAMON LINDELOF

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to...
DAMON LINDELOF

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that w...
DAMON LINDELOF

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provok...
DAMON LINDELOF

I love collaborating with different people.
DAMON LINDELOF

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdo...
DAMON LINDELOF

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
DAMON LINDELOF

I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
DAMON LINDELOF

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
DAMON LINDELOF

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher prob...
DAMON LINDELOF

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any...
DAMON LINDELOF

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but th...
DAMON LINDELOF

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
DAMON LINDELOF

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
DAMON LINDELOF

There is no suspense in inevitability.
DAMON LINDELOF

As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly e...
DAMON KNIGHT

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
DAMON KNIGHT

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and a...
DAMON KNIGHT

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
DAMON KNIGHT

One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w...
DAMON KNIGHT

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I ...
DAMON HILL

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical o...
DAMON HILL

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at...
DAMON HILL

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car...
DAMON HILL

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we co...
DAMON HILL

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.
DAMON HILL

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of thi...
DAMON HILL

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people ...
DAMON HILL

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals ...
DAMON HILL

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable...
DAMON HILL

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it ...
DAMON HILL

I have always liked a challenge.
DAMON HILL

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and...
DAMON HILL

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. ...
DAMON HILL

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pu...
DAMON HILL

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that yo...
DAMON HILL

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record strai...
DAMON HILL

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s an...
DAMON HILL

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under...
DAMON HILL

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
DAMON HILL

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t...
MATT DAMON

With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.
DAMON THUESON

If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
MATT DAMON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
DAMON RUNYON

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
DAMON RUNYON

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.
DAMON RUNYON

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's ni...
MATT DAMON

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
DAMON GALGUT

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that...
DAMON LINDELOF

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home lear...
MATT DAMON

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as i...
MATT DAMON

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
DAMON ALBARN

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
MATT DAMON

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding beh...
DAMON ALBARN

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was g...
DAMON RUNYON

For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was diff...
DAMON SUEDE

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect t...
MATT DAMON

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven...
MATT DAMON

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting...
DAMON HILL

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was ...
MATT DAMON

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday morning...
DAMON GALGUT

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
DAMON HILL

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it...
MATT DAMON

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research b...
MATT DAMON

If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?
DAMON SUEDE

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many yea...
MATT DAMON

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm...
MATT DAMON

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol...
DAMON GALGUT

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that...
MATT DAMON

Trust, but verify.
DAMON RUNYAN

You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we play...
DAMON ARTERY

We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards ...
DAMON ARTERY

I'm extremely proud of the kids. We hit this road trip (East won at Green River 72-67 Friday) head o...
DAMON ARTERY

We came out with a lot of energy in the third quarter and got a lot of buckets off our defense. J.B....
DAMON ARTERY

That's what we needed. We have to get stops to run the floor. They did a good job of controlling the...
DAMON ARTERY

He really takes pride in that. He's quick and he loves to play defense. There were a couple of point...
DAMON ARTERY

He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it.
DAMON ARCHIBALD

I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.
DAMON ARCHIBALD

It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players in e...
DAMON ARCHIBALD

You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.
DAMON ARCHIBALD

We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an ass...
DAMON ARCHIBALD

It was a service, and it saved us time and money. We don't gain (anything). We gained games. The red...
DAMON ARCHIBALD

We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.
DAMON ALLEN

They gained rhythm and confidence with every turnover. Every game in which we lost the turnover batt...
DAMON ALLEN

We wanted to have a fast start,
DAMON ALLEN

I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.
DAMON ALLEN

It's amazing what those situations can do. It changed the whole ... the game. If it's anything that'...
DAMON ALLEN

I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play.
DAMON ALLEN

I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focu...
DAMON ALLEN

I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.
DAMON ALLEN

The signing of Chad is outstanding because he sets the tone for our football team and the guys up fr...
DAMON ALLEN

I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games...
DAMON ALLEN

Well, whatever,
DAMON ALBARN

It's a great tune, it's going to freak out DJs and programmers, ... There will be edits, I'm sure. I...
DAMON ALBARN

I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense o...
DAMON ALBARN

The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his...
DAMON ALBARN

We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album [live on stage].
DAMON ALBARN

I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic g...
DAMON ALBARN

We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all ...
DAMON ALBARN

On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I thi...
DAMON ALBARN

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

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Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

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