My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.


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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pai...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN