"In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments."

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Source : "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

Jess Weixler

#Real Quotes #Stupid Quotes #People Quotes

“You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.”
“I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.”
“What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.”
“In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
“When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.”

Source : On not being Dead, as Reported
“Be sure of your heart before you speak.”
“To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and when to correct him. And thirdly, how and when to praise him and to make much of him.”
“Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."”

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