"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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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Eugene Levy

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“Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”
“Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.”
“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.”

Source : Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing
“It had to go in, but it didn't.”
“The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.”
“I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.”
“Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.”
“In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.”

Source : Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1896). “The philosophy of art. The ideal in art”

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