Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

• A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Twitter post from Jun 20, 2016

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• A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  New Year, Holiday, Blessing

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• Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Education, Teaching, Worry

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• Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Money, Giving

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• Stay with me; I want to be alone

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Want

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• The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Husband, Drinking, Saving

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• The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Mom, Education, Teaching

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• 'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Friendship, Girlfriend, Daddy

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

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• In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Life, Anniversary, Wife

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• I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Pain, Passion, Names

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

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• If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Golf, Advice, Watches

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• It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Girlfriend, House, Waiting

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

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• I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Thinking, Acting, Satisfying

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

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• For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Hard

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

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• I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Looks, Way, Actresses

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

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• Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Independent, Definitions, Film

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

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• It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Wake Up, Want, Realizing

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

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• There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Bed, Reason, No Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Home, Jumping, Hands

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

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• I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Feels, Comfortable

  "Style & Substance: Joey Lauren Adams". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. June 30, 2002.

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• I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  People, Want, Direct

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

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• My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Father

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

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• My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Dad, Father, Phones

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

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