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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ALBERT BROOKS But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more s... ERIC MCCORMACK If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d... WILL SMITH I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It... WILLIAM FORSYTHE Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.&... DONNY MOST You have really great hands,” she said as he began to massage her butt. “If you ever need extra ... PAIGE TYLER I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but... TONI COLLETTE I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo... HUGH LAURIE When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I... GARY SHEFFIELD I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa... TAYLOUR PAIGE I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, '... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't th... MAGGIE SMITH I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ... SHARON OLDS I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interva... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm... MARK STRONG I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN It was great to finally get it, because I heard most of the guys already got it who were on other te... ANDRE ROY I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort ... HANNAH WARE If you think you can do it, you can. JOHN BURROUGHS When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one d... CHARLIE BEWLEY Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm l... KATHLEEN HANNA I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do ev... BUCHI EMECHETA What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rathe... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an atto... AYELET WALDMAN He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on t... MARK WAHLBERG I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important th... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I will definitely continue to do Bollywood because that is my thing and I can't not do it - I ha... TENA DESAE dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i... ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything... JOHN LENNON I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging... DAVID BYRNE You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think ... JERRY SEINFELD My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin... HUGH JACKMAN It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that do... SENECA I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel... ROSE LESLIE The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certain... SARAH DESSEN Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ... TAMARA TUNIE At the premiere for 'Leave It to Beaver,' I was walking down the red carpet, and they were s... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination... MAHESH BABU I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but... GABRIELLA WILDE If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat th... 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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