Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.'
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Related People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I ... JOHN OLIVER That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down... TAHJ MOWRY Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change... GABRIEL IGLESIAS I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I&... DALLAS ROBERTS I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory t... KIM CLIJSTERS I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '... NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They'... DENNIS MILLER I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I... LYNN REDGRAVE They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... IGGY AZALEA I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm goin... SHARRON ANGLE I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anythin... DON RICKLES I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go throu... BECKY G I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in a... WILLARD SCOTT I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other s... DIERKS BENTLEY It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmake... TIM BURTON Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what... BILL BURR I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebod... CHUCK CLOSE I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ... MARLEE MATLIN When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I ju... ELENA ROGER I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've... TATIANA MASLANY The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am wha... ELIZABETH WARREN What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel s... JOHN BARROWMAN I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had o... GUCCI MANE I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm go... TIA MOWRY When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I t... KIRK DOUGLAS I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am a... DARREN BOYD When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,... DAN QUINN I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jenni... MISSY ELLIOTT I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV t... STEVEN COJOCARU They're like, 'Oh, you did a...' and I'm like, 'I did a what?' No, I flipped... SIMONE BILES I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in ... ALLISON TOLMAN Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months... COLLEEN HASKELL I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doin... WANDA SYKES I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really ... NADIA GIOSIA I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there... ROBERT GRIFFIN III Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't jus... BILL BURR I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my bab... MARY LYNN RAJSKUB One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian... EUGENE LEVY Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud&... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to ... JUSTIN KIRK When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get... JASON DAY For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy th... STANISLAS WAWRINKA I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical c... BERNIE MAC I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do,... KATE JACKSON When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, a... BONNIE TYLER I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. ... ALESSANDRA TORRESANI I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se... KRISTEN STEWART So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free... PAUL WESTERBERG If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the bur... CHARLIE PUTH I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whet... JOHNNY DEPP I'm just having fun. I go in the studio, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, what I'... MARTIN GARRIX I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it. VIGGO MORTENSEN I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes;... TOMMY DAVIDSON If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the gre... JAMIE FARR I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to a... JOHN MADDEN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been beca... BILLY ECKSTINE I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV... COLIN QUINN The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things th... KOBE BRYANT I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. DEIRDRE O'KANE As I'm starting to grow up, and things are happening, I'm going to have to take off my pants... SHAMEIK MOORE I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you spea... BURT WARD I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I... ELIZA COUPE I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks... BO DEREK I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons an... ROBERT KURSON You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me t... RICK PERRY Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad... KEKE PALMER People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,'... MAHESH BABU When I say I'm going gangster, I'm working really hard at something. LISA LAMPANELLI I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I... CATIE CURTIS The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer a... SHANI DAVIS I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days tha... BAR REFAELI I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as ... DAVID WALLIAMS I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn... CHANNING TATUM I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break o... BETH GRANT It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, ... CAMRYN MANHEIM My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong moth... APRIL BLOOMFIELD I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my ... MEGHAN MARKLE I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri... LESLIE NIELSEN It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don'... REBECCA HALL The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass'... BAM MARGERA I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to... TIMOTHY FERRISS An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to m... JOSS WHEDON I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene... BARBARA MANDRELL People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true... RONDA ROUSEY But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have so... JOSH RADNOR I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because y... KATHLEEN HANNA I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch a... DARREN BOYD The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game th... THIERRY HENRY I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l... IRIS APFEL People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself i... FREDDIE HIGHMORE Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'... TERRY PRATCHETT I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great... RAY COMBS The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little... THEO VON There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and th... TABATHA COFFEY I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them pe... MARK RUFFALO I'm hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go's are going to have over the next year,... KATHY VALENTINE Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice ... SARAH PAULSON
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MELANIE JOY The story of how shit got in our meat is the story of one of the central characteristics of carnism,... MELANIE JOY Carnism is the belief system in which eating certain animals is considered ethical and appropriate. MELANIE JOY Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet... MELANIE JOY We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reaso... MELANIE JOY Another myth of necessity is that killing is an economic imperative. While an economic motive has... MELANIE JOY The most effective way to distort reality is to deny it; if we tell ourselves there isn't a problem,... MELANIE JOY Have you ever noticed that, though we breed, raise, and kill ten billion animals per year, most of u... MELANIE JOY It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will... MELANIE JOY In much of the industrialized world, we eat meat not because we have to; we eat meat because we choo... MELANIE JOY The ten billion animals that are killed every year for meat and the virulent consequences of contemp... MELANIE JOY As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of t... MELANIE JOY The carnistic schema, which twists information so that nonsense seems to make perfect sense, also ex... MELANIE JOY Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we cho... MELANIE JOY If you walked into your local convenience store and bought a package of cigars, you would notice tha... MELANIE JOY There is a vast mythology surrounding meat, but all the myths are in one way or another related to w... MELANIE JOY Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that... MELANIE JOY But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatic... MELANIE JOY The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we're on auto-pil... MELANIE JOY We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different--cows, like dogs, ha... MELANIE JOY Most of us believe that eating meat is natural because humans have hunted and consumed animals for m... MELANIE JOY Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that ... MELANIE JOY To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in your... MELANIE JOY I wouldn't be betting the farm on that one. JOY OLSON The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Un... BILL JOY Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, kn... BILL JOY