Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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Related I don't have any favorite episodes from 'Joanie Loves Chachi.' I liked working with the ... ERIN MORAN My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it.... MADDIE ZIEGLER I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they go... JOAQUIN PHOENIX I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn... ROBERT SCHEER I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that w... DANICA PATRICK I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for... NATALIE COLE He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything. PATRICK WARBURTON I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta... J. COLE I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist d... MEREDITH EATON I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but m... TREVOR ST. JOHN When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ... R. KELLY Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real qu... MIKE TYSON I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoak... ROXANNE MCKEE I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my... MACAULAY CULKIN I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in ... HEATHER DUBROW I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta... J. COLE There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn... PENELOPE SPHEERIS Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off... ALAN JACKSON It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. J. D. SALINGER When I got a deposit on my very first cake, I took that deposit and I bought some cake mix with it. ... DUFF GOLDMAN I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content. NAFISA JOSEPH I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into... WENDI DENG MURDOCH Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even ... HALIMA ADEN When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar... FAITH EVANS I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. I... ALESSIA CARA I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to a... ANNE FRANK When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. S... KEVIN NEALON I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it wa... BOBBY DOERR Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn... DAN DECARLO I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ... TREVOR NOAH Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was si... ELIZABETH GASKELL I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to ... ROBERT REDFORD If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling,... TRACEY EMIN I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was ... ANDREW DAVIES My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing. BENNETT MILLER 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. As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn... ALBERT ELLIS When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a compl... PARK CHAN-WOOK I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't... B. D. WONG School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. LEONARDO DICAPRIO I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like. DOLLY PARTON It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Ca... ADELE I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ... KEITH HARING I watched 'The Sopranos,' I saw a couple of episodes of 'Mad Men.' I loved 'Sein... ANTONIN SCALIA I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typ... HELENA BONHAM CARTER It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in bet... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I wa... LAURYN HILL I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids th... DAVID LAMBERT I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas... DAVE FINKEL Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were... WAYLON JENNINGS So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I&... FINN WITTROCK The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ... RON WHITE For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because ... MELANIE LAURENT I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ... JESSICA PARE I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands... KATHLEEN HANNA I never met a stripe I didn't like. EDGARDO OSORIO No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for signific... KEVIN MITNICK I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers. MORT SAHL I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how t... TYLER PERRY My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. B... MIKE FARRELL When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr... MADONNA CICCONE I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for ... CHARLIE SIMPSON I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... SUMMER GLAU I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever d... SHANNEN DOHERTY I played at Sony, Warner Bros., Universal, Big Machine, Capitol... after I played every one of those... THOMAS RHETT They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put... HARVEY KORMAN What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it... TED SARANDOS Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steame... BONNIE RAITT My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commer... JOAN VAN ARK I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn... KSI Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn... HAL SUTTON Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i... ROBBIE ROBERTSON I kinda got talked into letting him stay here for a little while. I knew he was a bad person, I neve... CARLOS CASILLAS I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trai... O. WINSTON LINK I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ... HANNAH WARE I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influen... DULQUER SALMAAN It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do... CHRIS WOOD What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing ... STANLEY DONEN At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camer... PARMINDER NAGRA I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it. TAISSA FARMIGA I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab... DAN HILL I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica... JACKIE EVANCHO I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to ge... RAY BOLGER I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... ERIC CLAPTON I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do. DWIGHT GOODEN I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an... ERIC MCCORMACK I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girl... JOSH BROLIN I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I... WENTWORTH MILLER For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got... SALLY RIDE Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at... SETH ROLLINS When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't wan... JAMES CROMWELL I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple ... MARA WILSON I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I go... ADAM GREEN We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. ... TONY HSIEH I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I ... CATHERINE BACH
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Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done. PATRICK WARBURTON He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything. PATRICK WARBURTON I always wanted to do a Disney movie. PATRICK WARBURTON I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience. PATRICK WARBURTON I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again ... PATRICK WARBURTON I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western. PATRICK WARBURTON I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do ... PATRICK WARBURTON I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find t... PATRICK WARBURTON Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third ste... PATRICK WARBURTON You never know what's going to happen with television these days. PATRICK WARBURTON I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your ty... PATRICK WARBURTON Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it. PATRICK WARBURTON So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny an... PATRICK WARBURTON There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices o... PATRICK WARBURTON My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring... PATRICK WARBURTON I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with thi... PATRICK WARBURTON You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's ... PATRICK WARBURTON I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do. PATRICK WARBURTON I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and wor... PATRICK WARBURTON The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cli... PATRICK WARBURTON All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray thi... PATRICK WARBURTON Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. WILLIAM WARBURTON Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. WILLIAM WARBURTON You won't have to pay up if you don't have a tax liability or if you have overpaid tax for whatever ... MIKE WARBURTON Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy WILLIAM WARBURTON Philosophy is not a spectator sport. NIGEL WARBURTON Boethius, dunyada adaletin yokmus gibi gorunmesine hayiflanir. Cogu kez iyiler ve erdemliler aci cek... NIGEL WARBURTON Over the years, a lot of people have paid tax. Now they want to reclaim it. MIKE WARBURTON Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop. NIGEL WARBURTON The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. PATRICK HENRY For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ... PATRICK LENCIONI Teamwork is a strategic decision. PATRICK LENCIONI How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to ... PATRICK SWAYZE Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen... PATRICK LENCIONI Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor... PATRICK HENRY Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general... PATRICK HENRY Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps? PATRICK HENRY It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which... PATRICK HENRY Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ... PATRICK HENRY The great object is that every man be armed. PATRICK HENRY This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic... PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves. PATRICK HENRY The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ... PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow... PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among... PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it! PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. PATRICK HENRY There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ... PATRICK LEAHY We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i... PATRICK LEAHY Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America... PATRICK LEAHY I'm a gun owner. PATRICK LEAHY Judiciary is where my passion is. PATRICK LEAHY You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. PATRICK LEAHY The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug... PATRICK LEAHY A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan... PATRICK LEAHY Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin... PATRICK LEAHY Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone. PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th... PATRICK KAVANAGH In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ... PATRICK KAVANAGH Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag... PATRICK KAVANAGH Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor... PATRICK KAVANAGH Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. PATRICK KAVANAGH Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur... PATRICK KAVANAGH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie... PATRICK KAVANAGH The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being... PATRICK KAVANAGH The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss... PATRICK KAVANAGH What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. PATRICK KAVANAGH A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal... PATRICK KAVANAGH In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti... PATRICK KAVANAGH How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it... PATRICK KAVANAGH Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. PATRICK KAVANAGH I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman... PATRICK KAVANAGH There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu... PATRICK KAVANAGH Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ... PATRICK KAVANAGH I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you. PATRICK KANE If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed. PATRICK KANE I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get... PATRICK KANE It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l... PATRICK KANE I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ... PATRICK KANE When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ... PATRICK KANE If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p... PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience. PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha... PATRICK KANE Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin... PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be. PATRICK KANE There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players. PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town. PATRICK KANE I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter. PATRICK KANE I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i... PATRICK KANE The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe... PATRICK KANE I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h... PATRICK KANE Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li... PATRICK KANE I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations. PATRICK KANE I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ... PATRICK KANE Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway... PATRICK KANE Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn. PATRICK KANE My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a... PATRICK KANE It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself. PATRICK KANE Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ... PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i... PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. PATRICK GEDDES I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul... PATRICK FUGIT Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d... PATRICK FUGIT There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am... PATRICK FUGIT If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz... PATRICK FUGIT It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... PATRICK FUGIT The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K... PATRICK FUGIT One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B... PATRICK FUGIT I'm not a very fast-paced person. PATRICK FUGIT I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. PATRICK FUGIT I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple. PATRICK FISCHLER I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama. PATRICK FISCHLER 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th... PATRICK FISCHLER I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me. PATRICK FISCHLER I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Sca... PATRICK FISCHLER I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It... PATRICK FISCHLER Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st... PATRICK EWING New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstand... PATRICK EWING I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York. PATRICK EWING I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ... PATRICK EWING This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year c... PATRICK EWING Most of the fans will still be Knick fans. PATRICK EWING I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely o... PATRICK EWING Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. PATRICK EWING I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity... PATRICK EWING When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I... PATRICK EWING I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&... PATRICK EWING Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable. PATRICK EWING Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Sea... PATRICK EWING Every parent wants to see their kids excel. PATRICK EWING Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach. PATRICK EWING I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an... PATRICK EWING If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eigh... PATRICK EWING Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. PATRICK EWING People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the sma... PATRICK EWING Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. PATRICK EWING I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed. PATRICK DUFFY I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w... PATRICK DUFFY I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite... PATRICK DUFFY Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about dr... PATRICK DUFFY It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which ... PATRICK DUFFY I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ... PATRICK DUFFY I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A... PATRICK DUFFY It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc... PATRICK DUFFY I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. PATRICK DUFFY Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors. PATRICK DUFFY There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma... PATRICK DUFFY The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th... PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o... PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ... PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but... PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon. PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am... PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro... PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me... PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m... PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don... PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const... PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ... PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra... PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting... PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don... PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. PATRICK DEWITT