Stuntdouble Quotes & Sayings

I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week. — Emo Philips

There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: 'A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, weathered the gal. — William James

He was one of those idealistic Russian beings who are suddenly struck by some powerful idea and immediately, then and there, seem to be crushed by it, even sometimes permanently. They are never equipped to deal with it, and instead come to believe in it passionately, and so their entire life from then on passes in its final throes, as it were, under the stone that has fallen upon them and already crushed them half to death. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment. — Alan Vega

Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it! — John Frusciante

The fans don't know how much I love them so. It really can get to a hurting feeling inside due to how strong I love them all. — Michael Jackson

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already. — Mort Sahl

Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added the attractiveness of mental inaccessibility. — Thomas Hardy

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way. — Gore Vidal

There are points in life when you listen to common sense and there are times when you follow instinct; sometimes, you ignore both and just act on belief. — Aden Jamison Leirer

Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core. — T. Thorn Coyle