Eugene Levy Quotes

• At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

  Eugene Levy

  Keys, People, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

  Eugene Levy

  Thinking, Laughing, Underdog

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• I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

  Eugene Levy

  Believe, Thinking, Hips

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• One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.

  Eugene Levy

  Character, Laughing, Comedian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

  Eugene Levy

  Character, Family Love, Men

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• I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

  Eugene Levy

  Would Be, Sides, Comedy

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• I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.

  Eugene Levy

  School, Kids, Years

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• I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

  Eugene Levy

  Real, Guy, Comedy

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• I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

  Eugene Levy

  Character, Reality, Trying

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• I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

  Eugene Levy

  Fancy

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• I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

  Eugene Levy

  Cutting, Comedy, Vicious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

  Eugene Levy

  New York, Pie, Twins

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

  Eugene Levy

  Couple, Funny Things, Littles

  "An interview with Eugene Levy" by Sarah Kuhn, www.ign.com. June 10, 2003.

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• I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

  Eugene Levy

  Guy, Comic, Jokes

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

  Eugene Levy

  Character, Comedian, Actors

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

  Eugene Levy

  Hockey, Cities, Wings

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• I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.

  Eugene Levy

  Dumb, Together, Improvisation

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