Steve Guttenberg Quotes
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It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
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When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.
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I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.
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It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.
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I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.
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Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
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When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.
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Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.
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A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
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From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.
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Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
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What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.
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If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
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For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
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Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.
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When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
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You can tell when you're in a hit.
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Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.
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If you're buying something from Chanel, you want it perfect, and delivered on time.
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I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.
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The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."
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I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?
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My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.
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Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be.
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I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
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I'm just thinking all the time. There are times when I don't really need to think. You know what I mean? If you think about stuff for five hours, you really only need to do like five minutes and the rest of sort of rehashing it and dramatically going over it.
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If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made.
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No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.
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I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.
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Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.
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