James Corden quotes
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“I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it.'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.”
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“I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.”
-- James CordenSource : Source: collider.com
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“It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.”
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“I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.”
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“There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.”
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“I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.”
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“I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.”
-- James CordenSource : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.
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“I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.”
-- James CordenSource : James Corden (2011). “May I Have Your Attention Please?”, p.183, Random House
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“You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.”
-- James CordenSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Who puts strawberries in a salad? Seriously, is this a thing now? Is it a thing I don't know about? Is it an American thing? It can be. It's freaking me out.”
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“Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.”
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“Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.”
-- James CordenSource : "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.
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“Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.”
-- James CordenSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“It would be really arrogant of us to not have any of the fears.”
-- James CordenSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.”
-- James CordenSource : Source: www.wbur.org
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“To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.”
-- James CordenSource : "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.
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“Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.”
-- James CordenSource : "James Cordon Still Figuring Out The Late Late Show". Interview with Amber Dowling, www.ign.com. January 12, 2015.
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“Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.”
-- James CordenSource : "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.
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“If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.”
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“There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.”
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“You've got to just let it go and know that other people are enjoying the fact that you've fallen over. It makes you feel better about the next time you laugh when you see another person fall over. These things go in cycles; someone has to fall over at some point, even the coolest man on earth. Ryan Gosling has fallen over...once. He has! It's just a fact, Ryan Gosling has fallen over and we should all embrace that.”
-- James CordenSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It was a chance meeting with a lady at Mariah Carey's record company who was here in our office, actually. And I pulled her in here to this very office that we're sitting in now, and I played her the clip of me and George Michael singing. And I was like, it's joyful. And that's what people want.”
-- James CordenSource : "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.
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“Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?”
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“I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.”
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“There's just been a couple of moments where - we did the one [ Carpool Karaoke] with Justin Bieber, which kind of went crazy and I think is at, like 65 million views on YouTube .”
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