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I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.
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Jon Lovitz
#Jobs
#Lucky
#Granted
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The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.
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Jon Lovitz
#Design
#Style
#Mind
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Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.
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Jon Lovitz
#Jealous
#Thinking
#People
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If you build it, nerds will come.
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Jon Lovitz
#Nerd
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You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
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Jon Lovitz
#Home
#People
#Cameras
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Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
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Jon Lovitz
#Smile
#Running
#Years
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I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
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Jon Lovitz
#Baseball
#Fun
#Cheer
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Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.
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Jon Lovitz
#Thinking
#People
#Said
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I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.
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Jon Lovitz
#Jobs
#Years
#Clubs
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If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?
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Jon Lovitz
#Giving
#Dollars
#Half
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My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
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Jon Lovitz
#Dad
#People
#Laughing
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Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.
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Jon Lovitz
#Laughing
#Ems
#Way
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The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
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Jon Lovitz
#People
#Problem
#Economy
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You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.
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Jon Lovitz
#Want
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At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
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Jon Lovitz
#People
#Like You
#Fame
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I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.
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Jon Lovitz
#Feel Better
#Laughing
#Tough Times
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Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
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Jon Lovitz
#Broke
#Wealthy
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Do you wanna see something swell?
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Jon Lovitz
#Sex
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I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.
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Jon Lovitz
#Thinking
#People
#Be Who You Are
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But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.
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Jon Lovitz
#Men
#Thinking
#Fake
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I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.
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Jon Lovitz
#President
#United States
#Mice
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I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.
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Jon Lovitz
#People
#Want
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I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
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Jon Lovitz
#Drama
#School
#Play
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It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
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Jon Lovitz
#Fun
#Laughing
#Feel Good
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I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
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Jon Lovitz
#Dream
#Opposites
#Directors
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Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?
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Jon Lovitz
#Thinking
#People
#Loan
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How much blow can Charlie Sheen do? Enough to kill two and a half men.
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Jon Lovitz
#Blow
#Men
#Two
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You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
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Jon Lovitz
#Character
#Actors
#Facts
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I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.
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Jon Lovitz
#Nice
#Father
#Struggle
