Eugene Levy Quotes

#1. It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

Harland Williams

#2. Sexual awareness is american-reunion-jason-biggs-eugene-levy-seann-william-scottpart of growing up. When you're growing up, you can't get away from sex.

Jennifer Coolidge

#3. I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.

Paul Shaffer

#4. Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

Thucydides

#5. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

#6. 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?

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#7. I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.

Peter Orner

#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.

Wendell Berry

#13. 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.

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#14. All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

Antonio Machado

#15. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Anything is possible if you just believe. But if you want to start believing, start with yourself.

Dulara Perera

#17. Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

Marcelo Gleiser

#18. I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

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

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#20. This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

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#24. They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.

Bob Sanders

#25. 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.

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

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#27. 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.

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#28. In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.

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#29. The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

Chip Conley

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

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#31. 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.

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#32. Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

Sarah Addison Allen

#33. 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

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

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#35. At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

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#36. The love in your heart is greater than all the stars the sky could even hope to have. Hold onto that love, and it will take you higher than the stars themselves.

Naya S.

#37. 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.

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