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Profession: Actor
Nationality: Canadian
Birthday: March 22, 1931

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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

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One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

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People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

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The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

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I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

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It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work.

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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

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A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

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When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier.

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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Don't be afraid to look silly.

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I like being absurd. Being silly.

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The best things in life are silly.

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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.

Moby

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Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

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So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

Vincent Bugliosi

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Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

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