Picks Quotes - Page 31

• Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Roles, Mystery

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• You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

  Sanford Meisner

  Impulse

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.69, Vintage

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• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  Tim Ferriss

  Lonely, Ninety Nine, People

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• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Friday, Morning, Writing

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• A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair?

  Henny Youngman

  Husband, Fall, Home

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• They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

  Jay Leno

  America, Missing, Way

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

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• Repeat after me. I promise not to run outside of the house. I promise not to run inside of the house. I promise not to touch, pick up, step on, anything that looks interesting.

  Bill Cosby

  Running, Interesting, House

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• Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Venus De Milo, Phones

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• Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

  Robin Williams

  Men, White Man, Bigs

  "Fictional character: Bob Munro". "RV", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy!

  Bill Maher

  White, People, Guy

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". m.imdb.com. 2003-.

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• The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Army, Government

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• That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

  Mel Gibson

  Children, Thinking, Bird

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• I had one kid with the birth control pill, I had one with the diaphram and I had one with the I.U.D. I don't even know what happened with my I.U.D. It never came out. But I have my suspicions because that kid picks up HBO.

  Roseanne Barr

  Kids, Hbo, Pills

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• If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

  Demetri Martin

  Artist, Tiles, Bathroom

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2013

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• There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.

  Steve Martin

  Phones, Doors, People

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• They create these rules and argue about things we don't even understand. It is like watching soccer. You sit there and you're sort of amused, but most of the time you're thinking, pick up the ball! That's what you're thinking.

  Jon Stewart

  Soccer, Thinking, Balls

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• I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her to get the chance to pick out what I'm going to wear for eternity.

  Jon Stewart

  Mother, Thinking, Parent

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• I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Home, Rope

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• I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

  Doug Benson

  Waiting, Pick Me Up, Looks

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• I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

  Adam Ferrara

  Distance, Believe, Long

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• This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice.

  Aziz Ansari

  Keys, Giving, Matter

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• They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)

  Kevin Bacon

  Taken, Dark, Thinking

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• When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

  Sean Penn

  Morning, People, Interesting

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• Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.

  Adam Sandler

  Blue, Lovely Lady, Feelings

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• Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.

  Steven Gerrard

  Football, Team, Winning

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