"That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke."

-- Sean O'Casey

#Serious Things Quotes #Serious Quotes #Treats Quotes

“Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!”
“I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.”
“People just jump right to, 'We're going to create this really cool thing and put it out there and people are going to magically find it.' You have to market your marketing.”
“CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.”
“I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.”
“Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”
“I'm so proud of the time I put in the pool, so proud of the people I met along way, just to be asked to do this was exciting for me. I love it when I run into people who remember me from playing water polo as opposed to what I do now, which is an actor. It's rare that anyone remembers me but it's fun when I run into guys that played water polo who, we can speak in terms of water polo and what it was like and how we played, it's the great camaraderie. I was so excited to be asked to be part of this because I'm proud of it. I'm more proud of this probably than I am my professional career.”
“Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.”

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