Top 65 Jack Black Quotes
#1. I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.
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#2. When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.
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#3. I am the gatekeeper to my own destiny.
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#4. You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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#5. Habit is the strongest thing in life.
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#6. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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#7. My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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#8. Every movie presents its challenges.
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#9. If I could wish for anything else, it would be a little more moderation, a little more tolerance, and a little more of the trustful innocence of that boy who learned his prayers at the knee of the gentle, kindly old priest at the Sisters' Convent school.
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#10. I'm always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.
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#11. The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.
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#12. I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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#14. Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.
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#15. I'm fairly certain YOLO is just Carpe Diemm for stupid people.
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#16. I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
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#17. I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.
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#18. I'm a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I'm a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I'm thirty-four because well, I don't know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.
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#19. There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
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#20. You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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#21. When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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#23. You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore
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#24. I'm used to being crazy and "rock-n-rolly", which is a little different than this world. For me, it was a chance to stretch a little bit.
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#25. My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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#26. The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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#27. The books so fired me with the desire for travel, adventure, romance, that I was miserable most of the time.
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#28. Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.
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#29. I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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#30. People scream at me, "Hey, let's party." I give off an I'm-crazy-and-I-want-to-arty-and-wrestle-you vibe.
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#31. It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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#32. There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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#33. I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.
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#34. Beneath the clothes, we find a man. And beneath the man...we find...his nucleus.
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#35. Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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#36. The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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#37. I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.
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#38. When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
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#40. Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?
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#41. A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.
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#42. I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.
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#43. She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'.
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#44. Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that."
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#45. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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#46. I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."
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#47. I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
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#48. Iris, if you were a melody ... piano melody. I used only the good notes.
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#49. I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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#50. I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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#51. We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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#52. I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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#53. Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
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#54. You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
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#55. I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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#56. This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.
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#57. I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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#58. With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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#59. Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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#60. Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.
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#61. I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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#62. Even at that age I had stumbled upon one truth, and that is, the best way to get misinformed is to ask a lot of questions.
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#63. Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.
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#64. I say they had character because, while they did wrong things, they always tried to do them in the right way and at the right time.
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#65. If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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