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Eugene Levy quotes

Ocupation: Actor

Life: b. December 17, 1946

Birthday: December 17

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I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work,

Topics: Real, Guy, Comedy, Funny Guy

quote at the end of the day even if my part is a bit goofy the key thing is that i m doing eugene levy Quotes

I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.

Topics: Kids, School, Years

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

Topics: Would Be, Sides, Comedy, Hopkins

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

Topics: Thinking, Laughing, Underdog

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Cutting, Comedy, Vicious

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

source: - "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, Night, Sea, Deep Sea

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

source: - "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

Topics: Guy, Comic, Jokes

I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.

Topics: Dumb, Together, Improvisation

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

Topics: Fancy

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Keys, People, Laughing, Making People Laugh

We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

source: - "An interview with Eugene Levy" by Sarah Kuhn, www.ign.com. June 10, 2003.

Topics: Couple, Funny Things, Littles

American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

Topics: New York, Pie, Twins, Like Mike, American Pie

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

Topics: Character, Family Love, Men, I Love My Family, Common Man

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

Topics: Character, Reality, Trying

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

Topics: Hockey, Cities, Wings

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Hips

One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Character, Laughing, Comedian, Make You Laugh

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Character, Comedian, Actors

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