"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
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"I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive."
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"She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me."
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"With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook."
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"You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door."
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"If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound."
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"All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies."
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"Comedy is not pretty."
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"I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on."
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"I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten."
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"The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome."
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"I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?"
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"In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs."
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"You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right."
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"If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life."
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"I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it."
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"If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart."
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"Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training."
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"It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works."
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"I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers."
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