Kristen Johnston Quotes

#1. I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

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#2. It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

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#3. I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.

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#4. I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

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#5. I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

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#6. An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

Russell Pearce

#7. I want to play a Disney villainess so badly.

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#8. If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

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#9. I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

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#10. Dear Amy,
It must really suck to know you peaked at twelve.
Love, Kristen

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#11. I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

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#12. To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

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#13. I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

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#14. When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

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#15. I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

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#16. I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.

Estelle

#17. Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

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#18. If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Anthony Mackie

#19. So help me, if something crawls out of one of these bags, I will castrate you."
"I bet you'd love that."
-Emma and Jackson

Rachael Wade

#20. I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

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#21. You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in perfect synchronization, and you know you couldn't possibly be more content? I was inside that very moment, and fully conscious of it.

Alice Clayton

#22. Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Andre Malraux

#23. I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

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#24. To free them, to protect them, we must be savages. So give me evil. Give me darkness. Make me the bloodydamn devil if we can bring even the faintest ray of light.

Pierce Brown

#25. May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?

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#26. At some point it dawned on me that I might actually be in big, big trouble. The thought was immediately followed by the staggering realization that despite years of slowly killing myself, all I wanted, with more passion and ferocity than I'd ever wanted anything else in my entire life, was to live.

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#27. In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.

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#28. My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#29. Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.

Alexandre Dumas

#30. I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

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#31. I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

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#32. I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

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#33. Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah ... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they?

Robbie Williams

#34. My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

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#35. But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

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#36. And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

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#37. I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

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#38. Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

Jake Bugg

#39. It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.

James Gray