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"1056 Career Quotes

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

When Hollywood Box-office Results
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I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Never Standup Step Away
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On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Think Like Man Best
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For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Becoming About Mogul Owning
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I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

Love Being Stage Able
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When you're coming up with new material, it's not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it's working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You're constantly rebuilding.

When New Coming Material
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I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Happy About Working Happy
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Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

Comedy's About Opening Being
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I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

Businessman As Well Entertainer
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When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

When People Get Married
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Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Stand-up Comedy Mine Entity
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I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

Got Chance Work With
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Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

Everything Funny Yes Positive
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People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.

People Don't Drama Days
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I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

Trying To Do What
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It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Very Rare That Get
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You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.

Gotta Understand Branding Way
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If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

Look Me Ride Along
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I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

Write Course Material Funny
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I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

Known Ben Stiller A
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The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Beatles Biggest Break Career
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Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.

Big Boston Bulls Day
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I want to improve my shooting, my free throw shooting, keeping my turnovers down.

Down Free Improve Keeping
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I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

Have Met Almost Everyone
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There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

There Was Point When
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

Walk Into Room Full
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

Train Castings Changing From
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

Really Nervous Intimidated Whole
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I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

Definitely Was Living Fast
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

Was Amazed Support That
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

Was Scapegoat Media Put
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

Was Modelling Started End
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

Career Feeling Fighting Game
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Thought Was Quite Vain
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

Started Going Back Forth
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Kind Of Lost Interest
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I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

Made Some Have Best
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

Actors Like Watching Girls
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Would Have Wanted Rockstar
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

Topshop The Only Brand
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The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.
Career Core Teaching Writing
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I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Applications Based Benefit Gained
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We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

Explain Model Need New
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I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
Album Angeles Before Full
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I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Amazing Enjoyment Gives Had
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There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

Because Go Going Got
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I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Acting Always Audience Clubs
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Comedy Deeply Doing Find
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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Am Does Get Hard
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